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Re: How true...



Tristan Mumford wrote:
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.

Well, they both have the same father...Don Lancaster.  ;-)

-michael

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