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		JKCalhoun on March 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Apple-1's unusual MOS clock driver chip I thought Woz basically used Don Lancaster's TV Typewriter circuitry (also shift-register based memory). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Typewriter

kens on March 21, 2022 [–]

The Apple-1 display uses some ideas from the TV Typewriter (shift-register storage, another shift-register for a line, 2513 character ROM). But it is different in many ways, much simpler (the TV typewriter is 4 boards), and improved (24x40 display instead of 16x32 for instance).

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