TV typewriter remembered

A lot of the cost of a video terminal was the screen. Yet nearly everyone had a TV, and used TVs have always been fairly cheap, too. That's where Don Lancaster came in. His TV Typewriter Cookbook was the bible for homebrew video displays. The design influenced the Apple 1 computer and spawned a successful kit for a company known as Southwest Technical Products. For around $300 or so, you could have a terminal that uses your TV for output.

The wild West days of home computing must've been an absolutely fascinating time to live through. I know we have quite a few old-timers in the audience here, so there's bound to be folks here who used this.

Amazing