Re: //c Questions

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

Jeff Brielmaier (jeff.brielmaier@yob.com) wrote:
: To: mmettler@ttmath.ttu.edu

: MJ>1) I have the original (?) small monochrome monitor with the stand.
: MJ>This works fine, but I read in one of the //c books in the local
: MJ>library that it is possible to hook up the //c to a color TV -- and
: MJ>color would be nice.  Feeding the video signal into a TV VHF input
: MJ>didn't work (on any channel, though 3 was close).  Do I need some sort
: MJ>of adaptor or special hardware to do this?  How do I get it to work?

: You need an RF-modulator in order to hook it up to the TV set.  There where 
: several available back in the "good-old-days" including one that just plugged 
: into the back of the computer w/ no "loose" wires, but I'm not sure if they 
: are still available....

This is only necessary if you have an old dinosaur TV with no RCA jacks for
A/V input and output. If you have a newer one with a video in jack, just run
an RCA from the //c video output to the jack on the TV.
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
shack@southwind.net                               when internet wasn't cool