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Re: How true...
Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> bieling@terra.es wrote:
>> <http://ericclever.com/6500/TV_Typewriter.html>
>>
>> I read this book back then, because learning how to build something
>> that could display characters on the TV screen (no more, no less) was
>> *so* thrilling, but in the end it's true that this project was both
>> "extremely ingenious and ultimately misguided", unlike some other "TV
>> TypeWriters" that came later... 8-)
>
> The original "TV Typewriter" was all TTL integrated circuits and
> shift registers--the 6502-based design was Lancaster's later RAM-
> based cost-reduction.
I've never actually owned a TTL Cookbook so I can't state either way, but in
the CMOS cookbook one of the projects is a TV Typewriter. It makes me
wonder if these designs have any common heritage.
Tristan.
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