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The Card That Made the Apple II Serious


The Videx VideoTerm was the 80-column card that turned the Apple II into a business machine. Emulating it on an FPGA means reverse-engineering a 1981 MC6845 CRTC design and understanding why slot 3 is unlike every other slot in the machine.

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