CoCo's *are* real... (was: OT: PC Motherboard with a vacuum tube

From: Russ Blakeman <rhb57_at_vol.com>
Date: Fri Sep 6 22:54:01 2002

As far as I recollect it was the same scheme as the apple graphics. IBM
software worked ok as long as it wasn't made as direct hardware addressing
of the IBM video. The "upgrade" video card with RAM add-on gave the MBC-5xx
sereis actual hardware CGA for a mere $275 (what a deal huh, and that was
with bare DRAM sockets)

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-> Behalf Of Sellam Ismail
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-> Subject: RE: CoCo's *are* real... (was: OT: PC Motherboard with a vacuum
-> tube
->
->
-> On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Russ Blakeman wrote:
->
-> > Sanyo had a Ctrl key but NO Alt, u nderrated power supply,
-> bitmap (Apple
-> > type) video on a supposed IBM compat, and other really pain in the rump
->
-> So this has always intrigued me about the Sanyo. Are you saying that the
-> graphics screen on the MBC-55x was mapped in an interlaced fashion? Did
-> it have the same addressing?
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