Mullard SAA5050

A 1979 SAA5050 in a VDU card for Acorn Eurocard systems

The Mullard SAA5050 was a character generator chip for implementing the Teletext character set.[1]

Printed circuit board used in a Philips Viewdata unit, featuring a SAA5050 character generator.

The SAA5050 was used in teletext-equipped television sets, viewdata terminals, and microcomputers, most notably on computers like the Philips P2000 (1980), Acorn System 2 (1980), BBC Micro (1982), Malzak and the Poly-1,[2] and Prestel adapters like the AlphaTantel.[3][4][5]

This chip was also manufactured by Mullard for Philips.

  1. ^ SAA5050 Series Teletext Character Generator (PDF). Mullard. 1982.
  2. ^ "SAA5050 Teletext Character Generator". Vas the Man’s Arcade.
  3. ^ Graham, Adrian. "AlphaTantel Viewdata Terminal". Binary Dinosaurs. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
  4. ^ Graham, Adrian. "AlphaTantel Viewdata Terminal Motherboard". Binary Dinosaurs.
  5. ^ "Machine: AlphaTantel (alphatan)". Vas the Man’s Arcade.