Re: //c Questions

[lurch@eskimo.com (Erik Kloeppel)]

In article <phinc-1803951155500001@ip169.mci.primenet.com>,
phinc@primenet.com (Scot Forester) wrote:

> In article <3kdv83$ecp@hydra.acs.ttu.edu>, mmettler@ttmath.ttu.edu
> (Michael J. Mettler) wrote:
> 
> >   1) I have the original (?) small monochrome monitor with
> >      the stand.  This works fine, but I read in one of the
> >      //c books in the local library that it is possible to
> >      hook up the //c to a color TV -- and color would be
> >      nice.  Feeding the video signal into a TV VHF input
> >      didn't work (on any channel, though 3 was close).  Do
> >      I need some sort of adaptor or special hardware to do
> >      this?  How do I get it to work?
> 
> What you need is an RF converter, available at your local radio shack. 
> That should do the trick.

True - but the quality of the image just plain bites. (Apple sold one, but
any of those old "game/TV" slide type switches should work.
> 
[snip]
> >      "a very old //c".  The FAQ then mentions I should contact
> >      my dealer for an upgrade and gives an Apple authorization
> >      number.  What's the deal here?  Will this upgrade cost
> >      me or is the authorization number to get Apple to pay for
> >      it?  (And, could this have anything to do with question #1?)
[snip]

> the UniDisk and the IIc to your dealer and they will upgrade the logic
> board for no charge.  The dealer has to supply Apple with both the IIc and
> UniDisk 3.5 serial numbers, so that is why you have to take both to a
> dealer.
> 
> If you're not experiencing any of these problems than you don't need a ROM
> upgrade, and you should get years of use out of your IIc ;-)
>
the upgrade, last I heard, was still free of charge (maybe a shop charge,
but the chips etc are free).  And I'd say it's a good idea to get the
upgrade if you can.  I'd not heard of the requirement that you bring in
the Unidisk, but it
doesn't surprise me either.

Lurch