[rescue] Weird Silicon Graphics o2 graphics issues

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Thu Oct 2 22:30:57 CDT 2003


On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 04:42 PM, Scott Newell wrote:
>> The whole video architecture of the Atari 8 bit amazes me still to
>> this day....
>
> The rest of it was pretty spiffy too.  I remember dialing up tech 
> support
> (a toll-free 800 number!) and they'd mail out packets of tech info, 
> down to
> bit banging the co-processors registers.  Fond memories.

   I had an 800 back when they were new.  It was indeed a truly amazing 
machine for the time.

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire                      "My tummy hurts now, but my soul
St. Petersburg, FL                 feels a little better."     -Ed



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