switch can be set at the junction of two tube halves to facilitate
re-wiring if necessary!
It should be possible for most people to construct a light pen
using the above design, though I am quite sure that most readers will be
aware that this is only one way of obtaining information as to the
whereabouts of the raster.
Another method could be to count the blanking pulses, or indeed
build a circuit on the lines of the Nascom VIDEO RAM scanning
circuitry, or buy a video board and have done with the interface
problems!
fig. 4
Video RAM
‘PIGGY-BACK’ PLUG
Nascom Video-Scan Hardware
Light Pen