Crazy Monitor idea for old Home Computers

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Mon Apr 25 09:59:54 CDT 2005


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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