13 Jan
2013
13 Jan
'13
5:40 a.m.
On 1/12/2013 12:32 PM, Terry Stewart wrote:
Leverages self out of recliner, and goes and looks at 2600 after reading
Dave's, Fred's and David's responses. Sigh - that's what I get for
making a comment based on my ever doubtful memory. The small Atari box
I had remembered is just an RF switch, as the 2600 outputs a modulated
RF signal just as the CoCo does. David Griffith's comment about the mod
to give the 2600 the ability to have composite and S-video outputs is an
interesting thought. That might be fun to look into some day.
--
Later,
Charlie C.
That's
marvelous, thanks!
Thanks Charlie,
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.
I'll have to dig the manual out again when I'm back in the shack but I
think the device shown was actually a splitter, allowing the aerial or
computer to be connected just by throwing a switch.
Terry (tez)