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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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