Re: 264/TED/Plus4 Story

From: Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:59:37 +0200
Message-ID: <4EA9B829.6010506@laosinh.s.bawue.de>
On 10/27/2011 09:15 PM, Anders Carlsson wrote:
> Gerrit Heitsch wrote:
>
>> The prototype board mentioned here has a 7360R4A on it,
>
> Nice catch! I've still not quite had the time to take additional, more
> detailed pics of my board but they'll be on a website or mailbox any
> month now.

Your pics could be a bit sharper, but I read the writing on the TED on 
it as 7360R4A. If you have a working Plus/4 or C16 you could try if it 
still works. :)


> Hm, so if relatively early revisions of the TED chip were not stable
> even after adding the two diodes, I wonder what kind of message that
> would have left to appointed software developers who got ahold of
> prototype/developer boards in order to supply Commodore with a decent
> amount of software ready for the launch.

About the same as with the C64 and the early VIC-II revisions. From what 
I read the 6567R56 didn't produce a good picture and had different 
timings than the later ones (R8 and up).

It's still the same today, if you get a preproduction model of something 
you're bound to run into problems. If it's a computer or OS, expect 
frequent upgrades and crashes.

  Gerrit


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