23 Apr
2002
23 Apr
'02
10:17 p.m.
Richard Erlacher wrote:
With the COCO, you're better off starting from a
wirewrap panel and a bucket
of parts, since the video on the COCO is not "up to snuff," i.e. 80x24
characters-capable. It uses that ridiculous 6847, IIRC, and even at 32
characters (or was it 40), it's pretty shabby. The other RS stuff wasn't much
better with its unconventional 64x16. They foisted that ridiculous format off
on the public to save a buck on display ram. <sigh>
Nope -- the original coco was 4 or 16 K of ram. The PC had a real
display (monochrome).
The CGA was a piece of crap!
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Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
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