What I was going to try was re-engineering the AppleII into a surface mount desing. Then you'd have an Apple IIe in a 3" square. Then I was going to make an ide controller to plug into the joystick port... >> >> Does anyone have any specs on turning an apple II type of computer into a >> wearable? If so please contact me. Thanx. >> > >it's not hard. the apple ][ puts out ntsc, so you just plug in a small tv. > >camcorder viewfinder, at baseband. > >i presume you have an 80 column card? if so, you need a good viewfinder, >if not you can pretty well use the lowest quality viewfinder you might >encounter. > >use a 6820 or 6822 PIA for the keyboard, that gives you 8 or 16 inputs, >and microswitches will work fine for the "keyboard". > >7 switches (4 fingers, 3 for thumb) will work quite well. > >then you just need to write a program to check for the switches and >enter text into a buffer, or initiate commands as per the keyboard >input. > >mount in an external pack. > > >steve > >http://wearcam.org/wearhow/index.html
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