Bell & Howell Apple II update

No matter how hard you try to wriggle, John, your original assertion that the BNC was common in microcomputer video was off base, and you simply had to insist that wasn't the case. I simply looked at the old catalogs and mag's and could clearly see that monitors of the day, as used on microcomputers (it was the Apple-][ that was under discussion) used PL/SO-259's since those were what was on the common and inexpensive NTSC hardware used in CCTV and security applications already in wide distribution back in the '70's, and unlike the workstation hardware and high-end video production studio hardware that was brought up at that point, which nobody would have tried to justify for use with late-'70's microcomputer hardware, the price was the determining factor. Sure, BNC's were probably better, but those aren't what was already built in to the hardware of the time. Those are easily verifiable historical facts. A single look at a catalog of the time would settle that, but ... It's not so much about the "last word," by the way, but somebody's got to keep you hip-shooters honest. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Allain" <allain(a)panix.com> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 10:53 PM Subject: Re: Bell & Howell Apple II update