Re: Is the IIe Plat colour?

["Roger Johnstone" <bhmhome@es.co.nz>]

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In article <19990823125642.01715.00000049@ng-cd1.aol.com>, obsbedia2@aol.com
(Obsbedia2) wrote:


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>few years back I tried it on two different TVs with international receivers
>i.e. PAL or NTSC, 50 or 60Hz. Neither would display anything apart from a
>black and white picture. This may have been a combination of Apple's
>mostly-NTSC and shortcuts in the 'international' receivers.
>
>Roger Johnstone.
> >>
>  Did you use a signal converter?  These days, it's just as easy to use a VCR
>to convert the signal to an older TV.  The new televisions will even convert
>the signal by themselves if you select " CABLE", instead of "ANTENNA" for
>signal input.
>
>Jay Edwards
>
>

Yes, the TVs had direct video inputs.

One other thing to look for: the PAL IIe I have now (1984 version) has a
switch on the motherboard to select mono or colour output. The (platinum)
NTSC IIe I used to have did not however.

Roger Johnstone