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Jeremy Ouellet (Angel)
Type devroom
Starts on day 2 (2021-02-07) at 13:00 (Brussels time, UTC+1) in room Retro (duration 00:30)
Matrix room #retro:fosdem.org
The talk will be about how I bought a retro keyboard for a VISTA80 from the Canada Science and Technology museum and reversed engineered it to convert it passively to USB. The VISTA80 was a machine built in Canada and was used to "Create pages of text for cable TV systems or to create running lines of text or titles for television displays."¹ The VISTA80 was manufactured around 1995-1997 and was "One of the first character generators to use a computer chip (Intel 8080A) as a controller"¹.
1: https://ingeniumcanada.org/ingenium/collection-research/collection-item.php?id=1992.0451.009