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From: Neil Franklin <neil@franklin.ch.remove>
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Subject: simple video circuits (was Re: 1976 Antique Apple-I ...)
Date: 08 Dec 1999 16:13:28 +0100
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john@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (John "West" McKenna) writes:
>
> Charles Eicher <ceicher@inav.net> writes:
>
> >I'll have to check some old manuals about video display generation. I have an
> >original copy of "TV Typewriter Cookbook" and from my recollections of that b
ook
> >and the circuitry of the time, there wasn't any cheap or simple way to genera
te
> >video with micros at that time, all the solutions were positively convoluted.

About 1975.


> In that case I think you should take a good look at the Jupiter Ace.  The
> video generation in that is positively beautiful - just a handful of 74-series
> chips.

About 1982/83.

But anyway: Don't just tease us. Please tell.


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