[Coco] Ebay 190089697152 RS Tandy TRS-80 Disk/Video Interface

[Bruce W. Calkins]

This item has been under discussion on one of the other lists for a couple 
days now.



The consensus is that is was a model 100 interface unit that has been hacked 
to the CoCo disk controller.  We suspect the original circuit board is long 
gone and all that is left in the box is the drives.



I was tempted to bid, but what would I get?  CoCo stuff I already have and 
possibly Model 100 stuff I have no use for.



Bruce W.






Subject: Re: [Coco] Ebay 190089697152 RS Tandy TRS-80 Disk/Video Interface


> On Thursday 08 March 2007, Chester A Patterson wrote:
>>Ebay 190089697152 RS Tandy TRS-80 Disk/Video Interface
>>I've never seen anything like this! Looks like a Coco floppy disk
>>controller. Other than being a very large dual 5.25" floppy unit, what
>>could the video interface business be about? /Chester
>>
> That's probably some version of the Word-Pak.  It generated a text only,
> 80x24 screen on a monochrome monitor.  I modified mine to make the
> display use a lot more of the screen and 25 lines since it did have
> enough memory for 25.  And with the right drivers loaded on a coco3
> running os9, you can use it as a separate, always visible screen on a 2nd
> monitor sitting beside the 8cm515 color monitor.
>
> It impressed the heck out of the frogs running winderz at the time when I
> started an assembly that made a listing and then listed the listing to
> that screen _while it was being generated_.  :-)
>
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