25 Apr
2005
25 Apr
'05
7:59 a.m.
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Eric Smith wrote:
There was an amazing hack for the original II/II+ to
generate
broadcast-quality NTSC video. It was a product from Video Associate
Labs called the VB3 Microkeyer. There was a huge analog board that
sat over the power supply, and a digital board that plugged into
a slot. You removed about eight of the TTL chips from the Apple II
logic board and replaced them with ribbon cables to the digital board,
and there was a wider ribbon cable running from that board to the
analog board. The college television studio had one, and I wrote
software for it to perform various wipes.
Sweet! Where can I find one? :)
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