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Don Lancaster's TVT-1 TV Typewriter Prototype - 1975
Computer History Museum - Mountain View, California
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Don Lancaster's TVT-1 TV Typewriter Prototype - 1975
Computer History Museum - Mountain View, California
TV Typewriter homebrew terminal
Large Scale Systems Museum (LSSM) - mact.io - Pittsburgh, PA
Fun with chips: #1 MC1441 bit rate generator
Fun with chips: #1 the #MC1441 bit rate generator IC used in the TV Typerwriter #retrocomputing
I’m easily pleased. Leave me alone with a breadboard, multimeter, oscilloscope and a previously unencountered IC, and I can amuse myself for hours. Well, minutes anyway.
It’s fun to fire up a chip and watch it do its stuff. And even more fun if it’s an old chip. But before we get to the IC itself, let’s fill in some background.
Anyone who has read Steven Levy’s book Hackers, or who knows the…
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A very authentic TV Typewriter build, complete with the fake wood grain contact paper made out of a banker’s box sits next to an ASR-33 teletype in the MARCH museum.