15 Feb
2006
15 Feb
'06
4:14 p.m.
Rumor has it that Brad Parker may have mentioned these words:
"Curt @ Atari Museum" wrote:
With the 9-pin joystick ports on the lefthand side, I'd say that it was an
Atari home machine. [[ If I had to deduce any info from the URL, I'd think
maybe it was an Atari 1200XL 8-bit machine. ]]
Someone just contacts me off-list with a place
that may help, here is
one set I'm looking to reproduce:
http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8BITS/1200xl/s-16/s-16-proto_PCB_Rev
X8A.j
pg
Oh, I was *afraid* you where going there :-) that sure looks like a
coin-op game to me! but what the heck are those 5 big Hershey bars?
CPU / UART / etc... looks pretty normal for a home-machine SBC.
i can't tell from that photo, but it looks like
there might be enough
logic for some line ram and counters, maybe a cpu but I don't see any
stacks of eproms for stamps or background.
You must be used to them Socket 939 thingies, and forget that CPUs used to
have 40-pins... ;-) ;-)
what ever it is the graphics can't be too magical.
*having* graphics was magical, back in the day... ;-)
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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