> How did a device like that make it into production? Did the designer - or > the people at SamCo, who marketed it and put a write-up in the NewsDisk at > the time - ever actually believe that anyone would be able to make use of > it?
I would assume it was just an after thought and tagged onto the Hardware Development kit as an 'extra' to use a spare port - it was just 1 extra chip, 8 resistors and 3 transistors forming 3 simple Resistor DACs which drove the transistors to pull down on the red, green and blue video signals. Colin ===== Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe April 1995-2005 - Celebrating 10 Years of developing for the Sam Coupe Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/
