Re: Apple IIe and my TV

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Michael Fiegel (mikel@buffnet.net) wrote:
: Imagine my surprise when someone told me I could hook my old Apple IIe up
: to my color TV instead of the ugly green mono monitor. I pulled out my old
: Atari game adapter, popped it on the back of the TV, and plugged in the
: monitor cable as I was told.

Don't need any such contraption to do it.

: Imagine my surprise when this didn't produce anything but static.

No surprise really since you don't have to RF modulate the signal from a
II's video output

: 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.
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