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

[Chester A Patterson]

I wrote to the fellow asking him for more photos, which he has done.
Looks like someone bypassed the FDC and went directly to the floppy.
The FDC and video circuitry appear to be there. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett [mailto:gene.heskett at verizon.net] 
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 12:12 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Cc: Chester A Patterson
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_.  :-)

--
Cheers, Gene
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