6 Mar
2013
6 Mar
'13
12:56 p.m.
IIRC, the video display adapter used a TI 9918/28 VDP in it. I was able to
get that to work, and plugged into the expansion port on the side. You had
to supply power to it via a wall wart for it to work, wouldn't work on the
internal battery for obvious reasons. Only 40 columns but did do color as
well.
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Terry Stewart <terry at webweavers.co.nz>wrote:
Geoff,
A thrift store here locally had a PC-8500, which
looks a bit like a Tandy
Model 200. I passed on it and regretted it later, but someone had beat me
to the punch when I went back to retrieve it. ;)
Pity, The NEC PC-8500 is a rare and beautiful machine.
I had the additional external VDP adapter, and an
external
floppy disk drive for mine.
Wow, those are uber-rare also. I've never seen one in the wild myself.
Terry (Tez)