---
title: "Color SIN 81"
id: 12166
type: "product"
slug: "color-sin-81"
url: "http://localhost/product/color-sin-81/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/product/color-sin-81.md"
published_at: "2019-11-30T01:38:58+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-03-22T13:13:41+00:00"
author: "David Anderson"
featured_image:
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excerpt: "Video upgrade based on the Texas Instruments TMS9918A video display processor (VDP) designed by Daniel Roy. An article about the design, So You Wished You Had Bought a TS2000, by Roy was published in Sync v3 n4. Compusa announced it as \"coming soon\" in their ad in Sync v3 n6, two issues before the magazine…"
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  - name: "Video"
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  title: "Compusa Corporation"
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date: 1984
rarity: "Uncommon"
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  - article:
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      title: "So You Wished You Had Bought a TS2000"
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companies_products:
  - id: 10747
    title: "Compusa Corporation"
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    url: "http://localhost/company/compusa/"
---

# Color SIN 81

Video upgrade based on the Texas Instruments TMS9918A video display processor (VDP) designed by Daniel Roy. An article about the design, [So You Wished You Had Bought a TS2000](http://localhost/article/so-you-wished-you-had-bought-a-ts2000/), by Roy was published in Sync v3 n4. Compusa announced it as “coming soon” in their ad in Sync v3 n6, two issues before the magazine ceased publication.