30 Jan
2006
30 Jan
'06
9:10 a.m.
Rumor has it that Jos Dreesen may have mentioned these words:
Roger Merchberger wrote:
Yes.
;-)
There's rumors of a TTL prototype board out there, but if not, a chip may
well need to be depackaged/deprocessed and probed manually to figure how
just how the heck the thing works.
To my knowledge, there's no surviving VHDL or somesuch to actually tell us
how the durned thing works - it's a little black box.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Rumor has it that Jos Dreesen / Marian Capel may
have mentioned these words:
By
redesigning a functional equivalent, or by deprocessing a failed chip? If you meant to say : I want to repair this
machine which has a broken
unobtainable vlsi chip, then forget it . A oneoff copy of a vlsi chip
in a FPGA is just plain too much work.
With all due respect, *please* keep that
attitude away from the Tandy
Color Computer List! :-O
There are people doing *exactly that* to try to keep our beloved CoCo3's
running once the GIME chip start giving up the magic smoke in quantity.