[Coco] Passing of Steve Bjork, Computer Gaming Pioneer and CoCo Developer

Brian Blake random.rodder at gmail.com
Wed Jan 3 10:31:10 EST 2024


Allen,

After conversing with Dennis off-list, he confirmed that board is the
LowerKit III.

Thanks, Dennis!

On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 4:24 PM Allen Huffman via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> > On Jan 2, 2024, at 3:04 PM, Ed Snider via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > That board would be supplying an external character ROM for the 6847 I
> believe.
> >
> > Basically what these do...
> https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/09/mc6847-external-character-rom-1/
>
> Green Mountain Micro made a “Lowerkit” - the manual is in the CoCo archive
> site. Is that the Dennis being referenced here?
>
> If so, a switch could have toggled in and out of normal VDG mode, and the
> other could be inverted screen. I do not know if Lowerkit had that, though.
>
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