18 May
2017
18 May
'17
10:08 p.m.
Any idea what this thing is?
https://imgur.com/a/aNFiK
Didn't come up with much of anything with Motion Control, Inc.
I did plug it in, and it seemed to come alive. I tempted fate again and
plugged a composite video source into the input, and a monitor into the
output. One pot on top adjusts the vertical sync, apparently; other than
making the colors slightly weird, the video came through more or less the
same. The other two (marked Y and Z cal) seemed to change nothing. The
switch mounted behind the pots caused the LED display to change (as seen in
the pictures), though the switch mounted closer to the right side of the
unit seemed to make no difference.
When I get done moving, I'll dump the EPROMs and get more pictures,
especially if there's sufficient interest.
Thanks,
Kyle
19 May
19 May
9:46 p.m.
I don't believe the AIM-65 normally does color??
Dwight
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Subject: Commercial AIM-65 Video Controller?
Any idea what this thing is?
https://imgur.com/a/aNFiK
Didn't come up with much of anything with Motion Control, Inc.
I did plug it in, and it seemed to come alive. I tempted fate again and
plugged a composite video source into the input, and a monitor into the
output. One pot on top adjusts the vertical sync, apparently; other than
making the colors slightly weird, the video came through more or less the
same. The other two (marked Y and Z cal) seemed to change nothing. The
switch mounted behind the pots caused the LED display to change (as seen in
the pictures), though the switch mounted closer to the right side of the
unit seemed to make no difference.
When I get done moving, I'll dump the EPROMs and get more pictures,
especially if there's sufficient interest.
Thanks,
Kyle
20 May
20 May
1:28 p.m.
On May 19, 2017 10:46 PM, "dwight via cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
I don't believe the AIM-65 normally does color??
The AIM-65 normally does one color, which is red, on its alphanumeric LED
displays.
21 May
21 May
7 a.m.
On May 20, 2017 3:28 PM, "Eric Smith via cctalk" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On May 19, 2017 10:46 PM, "dwight via cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
I don't believe the AIM-65 normally does color??
The AIM-65 normally does one color, which is red, on its alphanumeric LED
displays.
Right. This seems to have an additional number of boards that provides
video input and output.
8:08 a.m.
On 19/05/17 07:08, Kyle Owen via cctech wrote:
Any idea what this thing is?
https://imgur.com/a/aNFiK
At a guess I would say it's for (sub-)titling. The text would have to go
in via serial, with the colour set similarly or via the rotaries.
The video generator would be simple but would have to be locked to the
input sync, so that might be what the pots are for.
RRRR would be red, GGGG green, YYYY would be brightness/luminance/green,
and ZZZZ transparency, perhaps. There might also be setting for
position, but I can't make them all out.
Maybe it would give some sort of startup output at power on (model,
version) even without serial input?
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