Re: Apple IIe and my TV

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) writes...

>Michael Fiegel (mikel@buffnet.net) wrote:
>: Can an Apple IIe be hooked up to a Color TV instead of a monitor? Does
>: this require anything special? If not, why didn't my "experiment" work?
> 
>Here's how you do it: assuming you have a TV newer than some stone age relic,
>there'll be an RCA line input on it for video. Run an RCA from the video
>jack on the //e to that jack. Tune the TV to the line input, and whoomp,
>there it is.

    Actually I've noticed some modern TV sets lack RCA video inputs,
or at least when I was looking three years ago. Less expensive sets
cut corners by giving you only coaxial (VHF/UHF) input, so it is not
just 15-20 year old TV's that are affected.

    Even in a case like that, most people still have VCR's hooked up
to the TV and they can be used for input (I used to do that with my
Apple II Plus since my family had an old 70's TV but an 80's VCR,
at least until I got a Zenith color composite screen. Back around
1984-85 it was a big thing to have a color monitor on your Apple II :)

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca