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 | | Chalmers University of Technology Chalmers University of Technology or Chalmers tekniska högskola is a Sweden. | | | Luleå University of Technology Luleå University of Technology or Luleå tekniska universitet is a Sweden. | | | Mahanakorn University of Technology Mahanakorn University of Technology, Bangkok. |
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| | MOS Technology 6502 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The 6502 was next used in the Apple II family, and then quickly appeared in various Commodore and Atari home computers, the BBC Micro family, and a huge number of other designs now lost to history. | | | The 6510, a direct successor to the 6502, was the CPU utilized in the extremely popular Commodore 64 home computer. | | | However this left MOS with the problem of getting new developers onto the system, so in response engineer Chuck Peddle designed the KIM-1 single-board computer. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technologies_6502
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| | MOS Technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | MOS Technology, Inc., also known as Commodore Semiconductor Group, was a microprocessor and calculator company famous for its 6502 processor. | | | In addition, MOS had a secret weapon, the ability to "fix" their masks.² Masks are the large drawings of the chip that are photo-reduced to make the pattern from which chips are made – a process similar to photocopying. | | | MOS had also designed a simple computer kit called the KIM-1, primarily to "show off" the 6502 chip. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technologies
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| | The MOS 6567/6569 video controller (VIC-II) |
| | The VIC has four interrupt sources: On reaching a certain raster line (raster interrupt), on the collision of two or more sprites, on the collision of sprites with graphics data and on a negative edge on the light pen input. | | | But the VIC surely keeps track of the X coordinates internally as the horizontal sprite positions are based on them, and a pulse at the lightpen input LP latches the current X position in the register LPX ($d013). | | | For this, the VIC reads a sprite data pointer for each sprite in every raster line from the very last 8 bytes of the video matrix (p-access) that is used as the upper 8 bits of the address for sprite data accesses (s-accesses). |
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http://unusedino.de/ec64/technical/misc/vic656x/vic656x.html
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| | Apple II family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Apple II was one of the most popular personal computers of the 1980s. | | | The success of the Apple II also goaded IBM to create the IBM PC, which was then purchased by middle managers in all lines of business in order to run spreadsheet and word processor software (which at first was ported from the Apple II versions, and later inspired whole new application software franchises). | | | One valuable lesson from the first Apple II computers was the importance of an open architecture to a computer platform. |
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http://www.secaucus.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Apple_II
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| | Commodore.ca Products Commodore VIC-20 History, Pictures & Time Line |
| | Apple Computer has shipped 600,000 Apple II computers by the end of 1982. | | | The Commodore Executive responsible for the VIC's development, and the author of The Home Computer Wars, Michael Tomczyk, stated repeatedly that he choose the name simply because he thought it "sounded good". | | | Soon enough folding cardboard stands filled with VIC computers and peripherals were appearing in all kinds of stores. |
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http://www.commodore.ca/products/vic20/commodore_vic-20.htm
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| | Rich's Computer Lab |
| | Commodore had several interrelated companies, but basically, there was the chip-making operation (MOS Technologies, maker of the KIM-1 single-board computer), and the computer company. | | | The VIC and 64 were great mass-market home computers that overstayed their welcome. | | | This computer, made by MOS, was created to feature various chips that it had created. |
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| | It is generally not compatible with the 6545 used in the PET computers. | | | MOS Technology 6526 Complex Interface Adapter (CIA) data sheets, 11/81. | | | MOS 6525 Tri-port Interface Adapter, preliminary information, 2/81. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/commodore/documents/chipdata
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| | Certain television sets also didn't work with the VIC (or any computer), and as the home computer craze mounted, television manufacturers soon 204 abandoned certain circuits which made the screen flutter when used with computers. | | | In this sense, the VIC would be a bridge between videogame machines, which were enormously successful, and personal computers, which were still just beginning to catch on. | | | We adapted Hayden's Sargon II chess program to a 16K cartridge for the VIC. |
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http://www.jbrain.com/pub/cbm/books/hcw/hcw-ch7.txt
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| | Apple II Group Achievement (for making the most positive impact for Apple II computer owners during the awards period): Apple II System Software team. | | | A prestigious panel of Apple II industry watchers, including representatives from A+/inCider, A2-Central, Apple Computer, America Online, CompuServe, GEnie, GS Plus Magazine and Nibble, recently nominated awards in a number of categories designed to recognize excellence in products for the Apple II family of computers during the period from November 1, 1990 through the present. | | | Apple II Individual Achievement (for making the most positive impact for Apple II computer owners during the awards period): Andy Nicholas. |
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http://www.1000bit.net/storia/apple/history/R021V6HIST.TXT
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| | The Secret Guide to Computers - History Of Computers |
| | World War II The first programmable computers were invented in the 1940’s because of World War II. | | | Commodore kept calling it the “Vic” in the USA but called it the “VC” computer in Germany and pretended “VC” stood for “Volks Computer”. | | | Dealing with competitors At MOS Technology, Chuck Peddle had sold a 6502 chip for $25 to Steve Wozniak, who used that chip to create the Apple computer. |
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http://www.secretguide.net/read/index.php?filename=history_of_computers
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| | Vintage Computer Festival |
| | While the computers demonstrated at the show were functional, there were, among other issues, minor design glitches with the SID and VIC II chips. | | | The amazing thing was that we did something like 6 new ICs just for this in 9 months and they all had enough functionality in the first couple of passes to make a functioning computer. | | | This computer is Serial #19 and contains a Revision 6 motherboard built just after Commodore debuted the 64 at the January 1982 Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. |
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http://www.vintage.org/special/2003/c64prototype
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| | BYTE.com |
| | Those of you who think of the IBM PC as the quintessential business computer may be in for a surprise: The Apple II (together with VisiCalc) was what really made people look at personal computers as business tools, not just toys. | | | Also introduced at the first West Coast Computer Faire, Commodore's PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) started a long line of inexpensive personal computers that brought computers to the masses. | | | The Apple II debuted at the first West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco in 1977. |
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| | The chip was - manufactured by MOS Technologies, and it is mapped at the $9000-$9fff - area. | | | These machines are also known as "CBM II Low Profile" and * "CBM II High Profile", respectively. | | | Most lines are 1 pixel wide, - since there is no possibility of color errors with the Vic's wide pixels. |
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Commodore 64 - Encyclopedia Article |
| | Compute/video game and demo programmers quickly learned how to exploit quirks in the VIC II to gain additional capabilities, like making more than 8 sprites appear, and move, simultaneously. | | | In the UK, the C64 rivalled the British-built Sinclair ZX Spectrum in popularity, benefitting from a full-sized full-travel keyboard and more advanced graphics and sound chips. | | | With estimated sales between 17 and 25 million units by the time it was discontinued in 1993, the C64 became and remains the best-selling computer model of all time. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/c/commodore-64.html
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| | MOS_Technology_8563 |
| | The 8563 was a departure from other MOS video chip designs in that it had its own dedicated memory, and memory space, separate from system memory. | | | Originally intended for a planned (but unreleased) UNIX-based business computer, Commodore designed the 8563 into several prototype machines, of which the C128 was the only one to be completed, industrialized, and released. | | | The MOS Technology 8563 aka VDC (for Video Display Controller) was MOS' 80-column RGB display video chip used in the Commodore 128 home computer (the C128 also had a VIC-II for producing bitmap graphics and 40-column text, and for C64 compatibility). |
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http://www.tuxedo-shop.com/search.php?title=MOS_Technology_8563
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| | Commodore PET |
| | As a home computer the line was quickly surpassed in sales by machines that included color graphics, mainly the Apple II and Atari 8-bit family. | | | ROM: 48k, including BASIC 4.0 and other programming languages | | | Along with the company came Chuck Peddle's KIM-1 design, a small computer kit based on the 6502. |
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http://ebroadcast.com.au/lookup/encyclopedia/co/Commodore_PET.html
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| | vic-ii |
| | The VIC-II, succeeding MOS' original VIC (used in the VIC-20), was one of two chips mainly responsible for the C64's success as the best-selling computer model of all time (the other was the SID sound chip). | | | The VIC-II (Video Interface Chip II), specifically known as the MOS Technologies 6567/8562/8564 (NTSC versions), 6569/8565/8566 (PAL versions), is the integrated circuit chip responsible for generating composite video graphics and RAM refresh signals in the Commodore 64 and C128 home computers. | | | The VIC-II was programmed by manipulating its 47 control registers (up from 16 in the VIC), memory mapped to the range $D000—$D02E in the C64 address space. |
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http://www.yourencyclopedia.net/VIC-II.html
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| | Vic |
| | VIC (all caps) denotes the MOS Technologies Video Interface Chip used in the Commodore VIC-20 home computer ("VIC" may also colloquially refer to the successor chip, VIC-II, used in the Commodore 64 and 128). | | | The conflict became the War of Spanish Succession and the end of the freedom for Catalonia as a nation. | | | It is located at 484 metres above the sea. |
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http://www.teachersparadise.com/ency/en/wikipedia/v/vi/vic.html
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| | Commodore 64 Computer |
| | The C=128D actually had three CPUs: an 8510 to run in either C=64 or C=128 mode, a Zilog Z80 to run CP/M, and a 6502 in the integral 1571 floppy disk drive. | | | 1541 disk drives, software on floppy, manual, monitor, Commodore Plus Four,Commodore Vic 20 | | | The Commodore 64 is the worlds biggest selling computer model of all times. |
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| | Reference C |
| | COMPUTER INDUSTRY: Since the end of World War II, the computer industry has grown from a standing start into one of the biggest and most profitable industries in the United States. | | | The impetus to build computers came from an entirely different source, however: the military needs of World War II. | | | It was powered by an MOS Technologies 7501 CPU, which made it virtually incompatible with any VIC-20 or Commodore 64 software. |
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| | MOS Technology 65xx |
| | The most popular 6502 based computer, the Commodore 64, used a modified 6502 CPU, the 6510. | | | The 65xx family most notably included the 6502, used in several home computers such as the Commodore PET and VIC-20, the Apple II, and the Atari 800. | | | MOS Technology 65xx is a family of 8-bit microprocessors from MOS Technology, based on the Motorola 6800 (introduced ca. |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/M/MOS-Technology-65xx.htm
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| | Computer_Monitors |
| | Monitors resemble television sets, or computer monitors and use superficially similar technology. | | | Interface Chip), specifically known as the MOS Technologies 6560 (NTSC version) / 6561 (PAL version), is the integrated circuit chip responsible for generating video graphics and sound in the Commodore VIC-20 home computer. | | | Beginning with the Apple Macintosh II and culminating in the Macintosh IIfx, the Mac II series was Apple Computer's high-end line from 1987 until the introduction of the M |
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| | Micro-Computers |
| | Lastly, my very first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 (also sold as the Timex-Sinclair 1000). | | | AMD makes clones of various Intel chips (pentium, 80486,...) and even makes some newer chips that are pin compatible with older ones so that you can upgrade (remove your 486 and replace with a pentium; replace your 386 with a 486, etc.). | | | MOS Technologies makers of the 6502 and 6507 later became the Commodore Semiconductor Group (see http://www.6502.org for an enthusiasts page) Western Design Center was founded by the same people and still sells the 65C02. |
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| | MOS Technology 6510 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The MOS Technology 6510 is a microprocessor designed by MOS Technology, Inc., and is a direct successor of the very successful 6502. | | | Other than the process change, it is virtually identical to the NMOS version of the 6510. | | | The primary changes from the 6502 were the addition of clock pins, which allowed the chip to make use of external clocks, and the addition of six general purpose I/O pins. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technologies_6510
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| | mos technologies vic - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Phrases that include mos technologies vic: mos technologies vic ii | | | We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word mos technologies vic: | | | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "mos technologies vic" is defined. |
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| | On a bad line, it should be 0 (this cannot be measured without extra hardware), and on other lines it ranges from 1 to 7. | | | It seems that the CSG or MOS Technologies engineers designed this mode for testing the video chip. | | | Notes: On the NTSC systems, there must be far more differences between the MOS 6567 chip revisions. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/commodore/documents/chipdata/pal.timing
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