Re: 264/TED/Plus4 Story

From: Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de>
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:09:06 +0200
Message-ID: <4E61FCC2.3040404@laosinh.s.bawue.de>
On 09/03/2011 09:25 AM, Bil Herd wrote:
> Greetings Levente
>
> Sorry for the delay, it's been an interesting week here on the east coast of
> the US.

I was fallowing it in the news. I hope you made it through without major 
problems.


> Did the presence of simple systems that could make lots of color, with
> admittedly very little software prompt some of the demoscene by any chance?
> I just picture someone looking down at the TED with a blinking cursor and
> thinking there has to be SOMETHING you could do with this thing.

There is a demoscene on the Plus/4. I'm still trying to find out how 
they made a full screen image possible.


Something else... in

  http://www.commodore.ca/history/company/mos/mos_technology.htm

there is a quote that when you worked at another company after Commodore 
you were shocked that you couldn't just order new prototype chips as was 
possible with MOS... Is there a story behind it?

  Gerrit


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