Re: Is it at all possible?

From: Gerrit Heitsch <*gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de*> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 20:58:45 +0100 Message-ID: <b303f5ba-7cb2-2448-58be-bbf74328cded@laosinh.s.bawue.de> · gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de

On 02/19/2017 08:56 PM, smf wrote:
> On 19/02/2017 19:43, smf wrote:
>> I can't find the video when Bil Herd said that everyone at commodore
>> was stealing the VIC2 out of his prototype (which may have been the
>> prototype C16 or C128 which both used a VIC2 tower) & he left a tube
>> of them on his desk. I have a vague feeling these were R5's.
>
> I've found this where he says R7, but that seems unlikely as the R5 was
> the highest rev I can find.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfJzMAyDh_I&feature=youtu.be&t=1471

You forget that he is living in NTSC land and the NTSC VIC is the 6567. 
That one got usable with R7. I think there is an R8 and an R9 as well.

  Gerrit

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