[Coco] Fwd: Re: WordPak Clone

[Arthur Flexser]

I recall that the WordPak 2 was capable of being upgraded to 8K, if that's
any help whatsoever.

Art

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:

> On Friday 30 June 2017 20:46:16 Bruce W. Calkins wrote:
>
> > It appears the CMOS 6345 is comparable with the MOS 6845 with lower
> > power requirements.  One does wonder if Hitachi hid some added
> > features like the 6309 vs. the 6809.
> >
> > Bruce W.
> >
> I wouldn't be anything but pleasantly surprised if it could somehow
> handle a larger ram than the 2k thats in the original.  That was its
> bottleneck. My driver added another line of text, but there wasn't room
> enough for 2 additional lines.
>
> > On 06/30/2017 10:57 AM, CoCo Demus wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I've just got an original (unobtainable) Word Pak RS from Gene
> > > Heskett (thanks Gene). I will first make it to work as it seems it's
> > > not direct compatible with WordPak 1 & 2.
>
> The base address may not be the same.  The other one I have has had its
> address changed at least twice, mainly because while it only needed a 4
> byte wide block, the 4 bytes they chose tied up 2 of those blocks, using
> two byte from one block of 4, and 2 bytes from an adjoining block of 4.
> Fixing the address also needed the code reassembled to move the address
> the code wrote to. There was extended muttering in the coyote.den when
> that came to light. Genealogy was discussed, at length. :(
>
> > > Then I will make a clone of it. But this will happen in August as
> > > I'm taking a vacation trip now.
> > >
> > > I'll let you know,
> > >
> > > Felipe
>
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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