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Roger Pugh
rogpugh at mac.com
Thu Nov 30 06:19:32 CST 2006
>> > I am not convinced. A Tiger turned up on E-bay recently, and did not sell
>> > for that much money.
>>
>> WHAT! Nobody told me about that.....bah! *sulks*
>
>Oh well....
>
>>
>> I'd love a Tiger, if only to complete my Tangerine collection. The writeup
>> it got in Personal Computer News sold it as a fantastic machine with its 3
>> CPUs......
>
>It's certainly an interesting design. I'd love to find the disk
>controller (or at least a scheamtic of it) for mine -- all the ROM I have
>does is ask for a boot disk (presumanly CP/M).
>
>3 CPUs is a bit of an overstatement. There is a Z80 in there for user
>programs. And a 6809 for I/O (!), the former with 64K RAM, the latter
>with 8K IIRC. The last 'CPU' is an NEC 7220 graphics chip with 96K video
>RAM. 3 bitplanes, there's no text mode IIRC.
>
>-tony
>
>
I got it.. I was supprised not many bid against me!!!! :-)
roger
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