someone should make one of these! On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 11:46 AM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 11:33 AM, Ethan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
revived in 1978, the gameboard was made up of nine Apple II
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II> monitors linked to a central Altair 8800 <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800> computer, which displayed the categories, X's and O's. The 1990 series used a completely computer generated setup."
Why not juse use another Apple II as the master computer?
- Ethan
The description strictly mentions "Apple Monitors", I don't see any mention of Apple ][ computers. I see this was in 1978, and the Altair being a S-100 system, it's capable of having a configuration with multiple monitors. This is done by installing multiple video cards, and the memory map has each one addressable separately. There's plenty of slots available for this, and the resolution was probably very low to require more than 2KB of Ram per card. Since it was Apple Monitors, it must have been the monochrome version, so that's a lower requirement for video memory. Whichever software was used, each image can be loaded into one of the 9 video cards. This would have been a very impressive system to, not usually found in the hobbyist realm , more like the industrial field. Dan