21 Jul
1999
21 Jul
'99
10:54 a.m.
Your assessment that the display is more or less TERRIBLE when using a TV
with WINDOWS is correct. My WinBook provides NTSC video output on demand,
ostensibly for when you're away from home and your docking station/port
expander, and want to use a BIG display. It's pretty sorry looking!
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 4:26 PM
Subject: Computers using a TV as the display
I happened to notice an advert in a UK newspaper
today.
Apparently some company (related to Tiny Computers I believe) is offering
a free PC if you use them as your telephone company and make a certain
value of calls in each of the first 12 months (the details are not
important).
However, in the small print it says something like (from memory)
'The PC is not supplied with a monitor. However the necessary
cables/connections to use your TV as a display are included'
So it appears that using a TV as a computer display is alive and well in
the UK. Mind you, IMHO trying to view Windows (and I am sure that's the
OS that came with this machine) on the average TV screen would make it
even more unpleasant than usual.
-tony