On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:
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.
For what it's worth, there are mods to add composite (and S-video) output
to the 2600. I prefer the one from Longhorn Engineer
(
http://longhornengineer.com/projects/atari-av-mods/)
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David Griffith
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cs.csubak.edu
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