Re: Apple IIe and my TV

[Doug Browning <vgt507@freenet.mb.ca>]

You can get a device called an rf modulator from Radio shack that 
connects between the video output of the Apple and the rf input of the tv...

Doug Browning
vgt507@freenet.mb.ca
http://www.winnipeg.freenet.mb.ca/~vgt507

On 2 Dec 1997, Mitchell Spector wrote:

> 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  
> 
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