[Coco] Re: Nitros9 and the 86 GIME again

[Ward Griffiths]

On Tuesday 05 October 2004 12:11 pm, mmarlett at isd.net wrote:
> Charlie,
>
> The machine does have a version on SIMM memory in it. Didn't boot. I
> don't run '86 GIMEs in any of my machines. I thought I had more of
> them but only had two of them that I could find. For good reasons,
> some of them we know. Tandy released a newer version of this chip.
> Knowing Tandy and how little they liked to spend money, it must have
> REALLY been a NEEDED reason.

Usually because somebody _needed_ to cut costs, and the new part was 
cheaper.  But I left Tandy just about the time the Coco 3 was released 
and know no internal details.
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