12 Jan
2013
12 Jan
'13
8:36 p.m.
On 01/12/2013 12:10 PM, Charlie Carothers wrote:
I noticed as you were flipping through the Operations
Manual there
appeared to be a sketch of the back of a TV with an RF modulator
attached. This makes me wonder if some early models may not have
included the integral modulator. Perhaps the sketch was just showing
you how to connect the CoCo while avoiding going through a modulator
that was already present for some other device. Come to think of it,
the modulator they showed in the sketch looked rather similar to the one
for my Atari 2600.
Unless I'm dramatically misremembering things, the 2600 has no direct
video output, and thus cannot make use of an external RF modulator.
Perhaps what you're seeing is the switch box? They were all largely
similar.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA