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Apple //e TweetWall
- Subject: Apple //e TweetWall
- From: BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:29:09 -0700 (PDT)
- Complaints-to: groups-abuse@google.com
- Injection-info: e14g2000yqd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=70.123.143.186; posting-account=HyIOQgoAAAAfAUGOevdCSBhPYcDSPtM9
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: http://groups.google.com
- User-agent: G2/1.0
- Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.sys.apple2:17379
As seen on Hack-a-day:
http://hackaday.com/2010/04/24/apple-iie-twitter-ticker/#more-23440
Quote:
A hand input bootloader and a custom communications protocol are what
bring the Apple IIe Twitter ticker to life. [Chris Yerga] bought the
decades-old machine for $20 at a flea market. Having just completed
his TweetWall he decided to adapt the idea for the 1 MHz machine. He
manually input a 50 byte bootloader that would let him dump programs
into memory via the joystick port. From there he rigged up a
connection with a USB FTDI cable. Now the images and text are
processed by a modern-day machine and fed to the Apple IIe at 3600
baud. See this in action after the break.
Original page here: http://www.atomsandelectrons.com/blog/post/Apple-t.aspx
Great hack Chris!
-B