Core2Duo: Well, I finally got a Core2Duo (E4300).  WOW!  It only manages about 2.5ghz and at that speed it's about 70% faster than my old P4 dual core.  I'd been worried that I might not even get the bus speed up to 1066 (standard for the E4300 is 800mhz) but yay, got a bit over.I still need to get new RAM and a PCI Express video card to shed the last of my legacy hardware of course.  On the bright side, when I do I'll probably get nearly 1ghz more out of the CPU.  It's amazing how fast C2D's can go.  AMD has just been obliterated.  About the best you can get an Athlon X2 to do is 3ghz, maybe 3.2-3.3 if you get a really good one.  Lots of the C2D's on the other hand hit 3.3ghz, a few managing 3.7 or more with good cooling.  That would be impressive enough by its self, but the C2D also does 33% more instructions per clock cycle than the AMD.

uC Video output:  I should get a little done on that over the next week or two (I've got off nearly a week soon).  I'm hoping to get some testing done over the weekend too.  M even knock out the rest of the character generation, then I'll just have the serial communication to deal with.

Morse code input device: I was talking to someone about the morse code thing again.  It should be pretty straight forward getting one a microcontroller to read morse code.  It'll be a bit harder to interface to other devices.  I'll just have to see.  Unlike the video project, anything I come up with on the morse project (assuming I break my lazy streak and actually do anything) should be available.  Heck, I haven't even searched.  Someone else might have done almost all the work already on some other project...need to look around.