actually Texas Instruments had a quad 80 bit MOS shift register package available in the
early to mid seventies. I had used two of them for a frame buffer on a CRT controller
design I did. The part number was TMS3409 I believe and it was something I got from the
surplus market.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>
Sent: Dec 20, 2007 10:40 AM
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Subject: E: Shift Registers as Delay Lines (was Delay lines in TV
From: "Rod Smallwood" <RodSmallwood at mail.ediconsulting.co.uk>
> I actually worked on VDU's that used shift registers as the display
> memory around 1973.