Polymorhic 8810

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwight.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Tue Aug 31 17:45:36 2004

>From: cswiger <cswiger_at_widomaker.com>
>
>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
>>
>Let me amend the last response - I'm ONLY speaking about the video
>card, I know nothing about the Poly systems, if a ROM is supposed to
>clear the display memory before hitting the disk or what ;) But
>what is shown is good power, video memory and signal.
>
>--Chuck
>
>

Hi
 It is possible that someone has grabbed a video card out
of a Poly88 and stuck it in the Poly8810. This would require
changing the address select from D000H to 1800H of the video.
 I believe ( as I reacll ) that the video is cleared right
at the first before the disk seek happens.
Dwight
Received on Tue Aug 31 2004 - 17:45:36 BST