[Coco] Re: again: CoCo RGB to VGA conversion

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Allen

I have a LCD panel that was part of some samples that were being used in a 
project at work and it was a monochrome 640 x200 TFT panel. Monochrame 
TFT in 640x240 are still available. Color TFT is getting  hard to find. Color 
panels now are almost always 640x480 and higher resolution. 

One problem is that in small quantities, color TFT LCD panels are still over 
$400. Any attempt to do a protable laptop type Coco3 would put the product 
probabliy in the $800 range. 


Allen if I remember correctly the monochrome TFT panel in the Pagewriter 
2000X is quarter VGA and cost in 100K per yr unit cost of around $25 each. 
The OS9 version in that unit is a variant of OS9 68K. Boots from flash. I 
remember talking to a one of the software engineers and they had to do a 
bunch of major tweaks to get it to work properly.  

But gee it would be nice to think of  one. 

james

On 18 Aug 2004 at 22:04, Allen Huffman wrote:

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> PoCo was to use an LCD panel that was compatible with the CoCos video,
> from some other gadget he had a source for, the the panels dried up
> before PoCo could be done.  Pity -- that woulda been neat!
> 
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