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Re: Help ID Card: Giantek Chinese ROM Card?

Subject: Re: Help ID Card: Giantek Chinese ROM Card?
From: Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:18:23 +0100
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: University of Saarland, Computing Center, Germany.
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Brian A. Davis wrote:

An Internet search reveled that Giantek Technology Corp. is now a largemanufacturer of LED display boards. Further searching revealed that in1983 Giantek developed the first "Chinese Generation Interface Card" forthe Apple II. That might mean these cards are a Chinese screen charactergenerator.

I don't know this beast, however lots of ROM surely sounds like aChinese character generator for sure. Maybe the Z80 is used to run anoncard Input Method Editor, allowing you to type chinese from a standardkeyboard. The IME card would need lots of ROM too that contains thepossible spellings for a given sequence of phonetic input. Also IMErunning in the Apple II main RAM would waste too much RAM by far.


Just my ï¿½2.

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Linards Ticmanis

 The Master said, "The business of laying on the colors follows the
preparation of the plain ground."

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