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[Rainer Buchty]

> > Add some shift registers, a little bit of memory and ROM and you get an
> > entire computer including tape I/O and video output :)
>
> Sounds like a Sinclair ZX-81 to me! ;O)

Actually, the ZX80. The ZX81 had all those shift registers glued into the
Ferranti ULA :)

> I really like the Don Lancasters advice to use a second CPU for the video-
> scanning to solve the problem of the expensive CRT controllers... ;O)
> Doing that would let you have a full CPU for processing. Oh happy days! ;O)

When I stumbled across "The Cheap Video Cookbook" I just had to get a copy
back in 2001.

> Let's look at modern OO-problems

Yeah, OO is really a problem }:->

> I don't know Oliver Bartels or de.sci.electronics (assuming it is in
> German).

You might know the product he's most famous for: the Bartels autorouter.

Rainer