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Post #31 by Charlieman
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateMon, 29 Mar 2010 - 20:30
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/strange-board-on-mac-512k.20243/
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There are close to 40 ICs on that board. An NTSC or PAL conversion board typically has three logic chips. There's a bank of eight pc74hct161p (MOSFETs?) and an unidentified bank of four similar looking ICs.

This is a very unusual board. The production values look fine to me, based on what was around in the 1980s. My guess is that it is some kind of multimedia output device like the Beck Chromatron that generated a colour signal from the MacPain pallete.

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