Difference between revisions of "Cromemco Dazzler"

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*Popular Electronics construction article February 1976 [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/70s/1976/Poptronics-1976-02.pdf '''Build the "TV DAZZLER"'''] [http://www.americanradiohistory.com American Radio History archive]
 
*Popular Electronics construction article February 1976 [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/70s/1976/Poptronics-1976-02.pdf '''Build the "TV DAZZLER"'''] [http://www.americanradiohistory.com American Radio History archive]
  
 
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* 6 May 2016 purchased board. (It's going to be a long week waiting for it.)
  
  
 
[[Category:S-100 Boards]]
 
[[Category:S-100 Boards]]

Revision as of 22:55, 6 May 2016

Cromemco's Dazzler (or TV DAZZLER) was a graphics card for S-100 bus computers. Released in 1976, it is the first commercial color bit-mapped graphics card available for microcomputers. Multiple Dazzler cards could be installed in a single machine and synced together, a feature which could, with minor modification, be used to genlock. Genlocked Dazzler cards drove ColorGraphics Weather Systems displays that generated most of the weather imagery seen on US television in the early 1980s. Excerpted from Wikipedia.

Cromemco Dazzler S-100 board images

(coming RSN)

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Resources

History

  • 6 May 2016 purchased board. (It's going to be a long week waiting for it.)