----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: New monitors on old machines
I've noticed a number of messages here recently
where people are getting
(IMHO) unfair criitism doing something in a particular way.
For most (if not all) of us here, classic computers are a hobby. We work
on them because we enjoy it. And nobody has the (moral) right to tell me
what I should or should not enjoy. Period. All that's important in that
respect is that my hobby does not adversely affect others.
If somebody wants to spend many weeks designign and building something
that thaey couuld buy ready-made for $100, that's their busienss. For
some of us, $100 _is_ a considerable amount of money, not something we
can spend without thinking about it. And yet we have plenty of time to
tinker with such things.
And of course the experience and education gained by designing and
building something is often worth a lot.
I can assure you that if I had a T2000 (I wish...) and didn't have the
original monitor, I would not buy some undocuemtned [1] module to attempt
to link up a more modern monitor. After all, that module was presumably
not intneded to work at T2000 scan rates anyway, so it might not work
correctly. No, I'd either design my oown scan converter, or modify a
monitor to work at T2000 rates.
[1] I have yet to see a 'scan doubler' that came with proper
documentation. I'm not just moaning about a lack of schematics (as
usual), but I've not even seen one that comes with proper specifications
of the inputs and outputs.
> This start-all-over-and-hack-something mentality is
> as silly as shutting off
It's about as stupid as always having somebody else do the work and not
learning anything about the problem or its solution. No thanks!
-tony
Some people are into the hardware aspect of their collection so spending the
time and money to make a part is fun for them, others get into the software
aspect and might not have the time, skills, or desire to hack something
together since its not fun. While it seems quite a few people like both
hardware and software most have a slant one way or the other. Personally I
will fix something that is too hard, too time consuming, or too expensive to
replace and prefer the original devices instead of newer hacks for some
things. Some newer hardware just looks funny on older machines to me.