Re: IIgs and TV

[valthoff@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Victoria M Althoff)]

In article <HAGSTROM.94Jan20104559@alfredo.mit.edu> hagstrom@athena.mit.edu (Pa
ul A Hagstrom) writes:
>The older model //s could be connected to a normal TV for use as a monitor
>(albeit, a rather ucky-looking one usually, but a monitor nevertheless).  Does
>the IIgs have this option, or do you need a dedicated monitor for it?  (I ask
>because I've got a Mac and I'm hoping I can just buy the IIgs CPU and use my
>current keyboard/mouse and TV).
>
>Thanks..
>
> -Paul Hagstrom
>  hagstrom@mit.edu


The only Apple ][ ever shipped ready to connect to a TV set was the //c, which 
came with a little box that plugged into the back, with a switch and an RF 
output.

That said, if you are using a fairly new TV, it may have a VIDEO IN jack on the
back.  Just run a line from the Composite Video Out (RCA-type connector) on the
Apple ][ (including the GS) to the Video In on the TV.

If the TV doesn't have such a jack, but you have a VCR, run the cable to the 
VIDEO IN of the VCR.

Either way, you may have to throw an INPUT SELECT switch on either the VTR or 
TV.

If you want to use the TV RF input, you need to get an RF MODULATOR.  Radio 
Shack sells one for about $20.  Just hook it to your TV's antenna input, set it
to Ch. 3 or CH.4, connect it to the Apple's COMPOSITE VIDEO OUT (or just VIDEO 
OUT on a ][e/][+), and you're set.

Thank you, Apple, for giving us a video output that almost exactly matches the 
EIA standard for NTSC color video!

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
(I'm really a TV production person!)