2 Nov
2006
2 Nov
'06
5:12 p.m.
On 11/3/06, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
Wasn't there a lot of slop in the supposedly
RS-170 that
many 70s-80s computers were generating? There's the spec,
and then there's the just-good-enough signal they'd generate
by any hack that looked good on the expected type and quality
of output monitor.
I've had that issue with the stock CDP1861 "Pixie" output from an
Elf/VIP/etc... works fine on an older analog B&W monitor, but fails to
produce a picture on anything resembling a modern RS-170-capable
monitor (modern in this case is made after, say, 1985).
Don't have a solution to that except to keep an ancient RCA mono monitor around.
-ethan