[Coco] GIME chip data collection

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Nick one last thing I forgot:

VTi is no longer a company that I can find info about. It may have been 
absorbed by another or just out of business. So chasing that end maybe a 
futile effort. VLSI is still an active Fabrication company. They may not have 
their own line of chips but are a house that designs and manufactures other 
companies designs. That would make sense as Tandy would not have 
invested the millions to build their own fab house. Instead they would 
contract out the design and manufacturing. SO my guess is that VTi was 
the first and either could not meet cost, quality and/or schedule, they 
switched to VLSI. 

james


ps 

Yes I do believe now more so that at one time there was at least a few 
Coco3's out there that could have had the "256 color" mode. How many still 
exist today is more likey a handfull. 



On 17 Jun 2009 at 21:28, Nick Marentes wrote:

> I am trying to create a log of chip identification information of the
> CoCo3's GIME chip.
> 
> On the top of all GIME chips will be labelling similar to the
> following...
> 
> 629 V  C030
> 2645A0001
> TCC1014
> (c) TANDY 1986
> KOREA      A
> 
> This is taken from my GIME chip as an example.
> 
> Also include the manufacturer logo. Mine is  "VTI".
> 
> So as not to clog this list with these e-mails, please send the data
> to my home e-mail of:
> 
> nickma at optusnet.com.au
> 
> 
> The purpose of this to try and see if I can create some sort of GIME
> version map, ascertain how many versions of the GIME are out there and
> if there are any unique versions floating around.
> 
> Nick Marentes
> 
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