While not a pressing matter, I have been looking for the Tandy issued graphics card hardware for both the TRS-80 Models III & 4. Have not seen any on Ebay nor Craigslist and beyond the references in some of the TRS-80 related websites, there is no pictures to go by in case I happen to stumble upon one at a flea market.
Anyone with some insight on where to find more info on this hardware upgrade for the machines?
> While not a pressing matter, I have been looking for the Tandy issued
> graphics card hardware for both the TRS-80 Models III & 4. Have not seen
> any on Ebay nor Craigslist and beyond the references in some of the
> TRS-80 related websites, there is no pictures to go by in case I happen
> to stumble upon one at a flea market.
> Anyone with some insight on where to find more info on this hardware
> upgrade for the machines?
I was hot to have one of those bad boys as well, but bought and built a 3rd party product (can't remember the name now) that was external and also offered color. I wrote some software for it, but lost interest fairly quickly.
> On 7/5/2012 2:22 PM, Rogelio Perea wrote:
>> While not a pressing matter, I have been looking for the Tandy issued
>> graphics card hardware for both the TRS-80 Models III & 4. Have not seen
>> any on Ebay nor Craigslist and beyond the references in some of the
>> TRS-80 related websites, there is no pictures to go by in case I happen
>> to stumble upon one at a flea market.
>> Anyone with some insight on where to find more info on this hardware
>> upgrade for the machines?
> I was hot to have one of those bad boys as well, but bought and built a
> 3rd party product (can't remember the name now) that was external and
> also offered color. I wrote some software for it, but lost interest
> fairly quickly.
> Define "high resolution" in regards to the Model 3 and 4.
> This should be interesting. :P
> Doc Clu
> On 7/6/12 12:38 AM, Grinder wrote:
>> On 7/5/2012 2:22 PM, Rogelio Perea wrote:
>>> While not a pressing matter, I have been looking for the Tandy issued
>>> graphics card hardware for both the TRS-80 Models III & 4. Have not seen
>>> any on Ebay nor Craigslist and beyond the references in some of the
>>> TRS-80 related websites, there is no pictures to go by in case I happen
>>> to stumble upon one at a flea market.
>>> Anyone with some insight on where to find more info on this hardware
>>> upgrade for the machines?
>> I was hot to have one of those bad boys as well, but bought and built a
>> 3rd party product (can't remember the name now) that was external and
>> also offered color. I wrote some software for it, but lost interest
>> fairly quickly.
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Clu wrote:
> Define "high resolution" in regards to the Model 3 and 4.
> This should be interesting. :P
> Doc Clu
"Higher resolution" than was built in. Low resolution compared to what's available today.
I dragged home a 3GHz computer on Sunday, and it "only" has 512megs of RAM in it, and then I grumbled as a chunk of that was used for the built in video interface, that is much more advanced than what was in the Radio Shack computers (the fact that it uses a "big chunk" of RAM is an indicator of that). The best permanent storage I had up to late 1993 was 720K of disk space on a 3.5" floppy on my CoCo III. Of course, that computer had 512K of RAM, after I upgraded it. It's a near infinite increase in computing specs, in 20 years.
> On 7/6/12 12:38 AM, Grinder wrote:
>> On 7/5/2012 2:22 PM, Rogelio Perea wrote:
>>> While not a pressing matter, I have been looking for the Tandy issued
>>> graphics card hardware for both the TRS-80 Models III & 4. Have not seen
>>> any on Ebay nor Craigslist and beyond the references in some of the
>>> TRS-80 related websites, there is no pictures to go by in case I happen
>>> to stumble upon one at a flea market.
>>> Anyone with some insight on where to find more info on this hardware
>>> upgrade for the machines?
>> I was hot to have one of those bad boys as well, but bought and built a
>> 3rd party product (can't remember the name now) that was external and
>> also offered color. I wrote some software for it, but lost interest
>> fairly quickly.
Rogelio Perea <os9d...@gmail.com> writes:
> While not a pressing matter, I have been looking for the Tandy issued
> graphics card hardware for both the TRS-80 Models III & 4. Have not
> seen any on Ebay nor Craigslist and beyond the references in some of
> the TRS-80 related websites, there is no pictures to go by in case I
> happen to stumble upon one at a flea market.
> Anyone with some insight on where to find more info on this hardware
> upgrade for the machines?
I don't know of any pictures of complete boards, but in the service
manuals you can find a lot of information, including the board circuit
traces and component-label silkscreens. You could identify a board by
looking for the part number 8709297 or 8709397 (for Model III or 4)
written as part of the solder-side circuit trace.
Wow... those WERE nice graphics. I mean even now I look at those crisp graphics, compare it to the regular graphics of the TRS-80 and think... that is damn good. Where can I get one of those? Be fun to use from some BBSing.
But then I slap myself back to the present day. :P
