On Sun, Jan 03, 2016, Adrian Graham wrote:
On 03/01/2016 02:06, "Terry Stewart"
<terry.stewart296a at gmail.com> wrote:
It's interesting that none of my present TVs
would tune properly to the RF
of the ZX81 but they will with some of the other RF only computers like the
Coco 1 and Atari 400? More circuitry in the latter perhaps...
Going from an old,
old memory from when TVs became auto-tune rather than
dial-in or 'press-a-button-and-hold-until-something-happens'
What's
this about holding a button?
> I recall it was
> to do with the 'black level' from the ZX81 in that it was too great and
> caused the autotune mechanism to skip it altogether as it wasn't seen as a
> useable signal.
>
> Hopefully someone else can elaborate on that.
I dont know abourt the ZX but when I worked on VDUs and wanted a quick
comp output.
I seem to remember you could connect a 560R to positive going TTL video
and a 390R
to negative going TTL mixed sync and you would get 1v comp into 75R.
Rod