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May 4, 2011 02:05 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/fkqOIylyPLM/Woz-and-the-RCA-Character-generator-Patent
Woz and the RCA Character-generator Patent
doperative writes "A lot of patents are pretty much not worth that much .. In other words, any fifth-grader could come up with the same approach .. And then we find out RCA has a patent on a character generator for any raster-scanned setup .. And they patented it at a time when nobody could have envisioned it really being used or anything ... and they got five bucks for each Apple II, based on this little idea that's not even an idea. Y'know: store the bits, store the bits, then pop in a character on your TV."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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