I wanted to confirm Eric's post on the availability of Sharp 640 x 480
passive matrix displays (6" x 4.5").  They also have built-in touch
sensitive arrays based on Wacom technology.  $25!

Part # is LM64194F.  All has a few pages of data sheets but I have been
unable to find the full monte on Sharp's site.  Anyone know anything about
this part?

The part is conceptually two 640 x 240 displays.  You address the upper and
lower half at the same time (4 bits each) via shift registers and then latch
in the data to display on a per line basis. And on to the next line.

Can anyone point toward info for ASCII decode to pattern display?

Timing looks like you could certainly run this with a 17C756 using extended
memory mode.

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