[Coco] COCO Video

[Mike Pepe]

No real need, there's a pretty good block diagram of the internal guts of
the thing in the datasheet. The SAM is also rather well documented.

I'd say the folks who've done CoCo FPGA's and the emulators, however, have
already been successful at this task!

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Louis Ciotti
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 5:39 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] COCO Video

Has anyone ever "reverse engineered" the 6847?

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Mike Pepe <lamune at doki-doki.net> wrote:

> John, you've probably been asked this before, but what do you think of 
> the theory that the 6847 and 6883 were designed specifically for 
> Tandy? The
> 6883
> in particular smells like a breadboard of TTL glue that got the old 
> shrinkeroo into a 40 pin DIP.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco- 
> > bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of john dumas
> > Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 2:33 PM
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] COCO Video
> >
> > On 6/20/2013 3:02 PM, Mike Pepe wrote:
> > > John, if anyone should have seen it in breadboard form, it should 
> > > have been you!
> > Yeah, that's what I've always thought.
> > Of course, there was a lot that never found it's way down to the
> "grunts".
> > And the VDG project, more than any other at the time, was a prime 
> > example of that. There surely was "stuff" going on in other groups - 
> > MOT was very Bottoms-Up at that time - that never got well known in 
> > other
> groups.......
> >
> > I don't think Boisy could have picked a more difficult task - 
> > history
> wise, that
> > is........
> >
> >
> >
> > Now his Atari design (Liber809) work...WOW, that looks really tough.
> > And truly amazing.
> >
> > cheers,
> > johnd
> >
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