Polymorhic 8810

From: cswiger <cswiger_at_widomaker.com>
Date: Tue Aug 31 17:27:18 2004

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Ed Chapel wrote:
> Currently on eBay is an auction for a Poly 8810.
> The seller shows pictures of the screen with random text garbage.
> Anyone know if this is normal for these systems, if perhaps a boot disk is
> not readable?
> Or is this a hardware problem?
>
> The eBay item number is 5119743938
>

I have a Polymorphic display card in my Altair and that's exactly
how it looks on power up, working normally. Just random garbage in
memory. I can post a photo for doubters. A two byte 8080 program
would clear all memory incl. the display (0x33, 0xc7 i think,
inc sp then rst 0)

--Chuck
Received on Tue Aug 31 2004 - 17:27:18 BST