Re: Apple IIc --- output options (resolved)

[fxg@imib.RWTH-Aachen.De (Felix H. Gatzemeier)]

>>>>> "stephen" == stephen e buggie <buggie@musca.unm.edu> writes:

    stephen> You hinted correctly at the fault: The little TV box for the Apple
    stephen> IIc is intended for American NTSC ("never twice the same color")
    stephen> TV signal, while Germany uses PAL ("perfection at last") TV
    stephen> signal.  These NTSC and PAL signals are incompatible.

I give up on the TVs, then. (I hope I can memorize these acronyms now, nice
hint!)

    stephen> Felix H. Gatzemeier (fxg@imib.RWTH-Aachen.De) wrote:
    stephen> : I recently bought a IIc for cheap money and am now trying to get
    stephen> : it to work with a TV set, with little success.

    stephen> : So, what I'm wondering here is: Is this a sign of a hardware
    stephen> : defect? Is there some kind of trickery in attaching a IIc to a
    stephen> : `modern' (i.e. no dials to turn) TV set? I have an old Orion
    stephen> : Monitor dusting away in the corner that might accept TTL or RGB
    stephen> : signals (now that's some description) --- how picky is a IIc
    stephen> : with general monitors? 

I finally stopped wondering and dusted off that monitor --- and it worked!
Hopelessly useless for 80 columns, but what the heck. Now I'm looking for some
"10 fun things to do with a blank IIc" list ;-)

-- 
Felix

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