23 May
2010
23 May
'10
10:23 a.m.
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 4:15 AM, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrot=
e:
The machine will run without a monitor. You just won't be able to see
what it is doing :-) (sorry, couldn't resist).
More seriously, if you havea composite-input mono monitor that can handle
50 Hz vertical (and most can), it should be able to display a monochrome
picture from this Apple clone. I don;t know how much of a clone it is, if
I had wanted ot do something like this, I would have left the mainboard
circuitry as it was (NTSC encoding essentially comes 'for free' in the
Apple ][ video circuit) and made a colour encoder card to go in slot 7
(rather like the better-known PAL and RGB video output cards). If that's
the case you might well be able to get something approaching NTSC colour
out of it.
-tony
Bulgaria in those days wouldn't have been
PAL. =A0They would have been us=
ing
SECAM.
Alright - same question applies then: is converting SECAM->NTSC
necessary to run one of these machines in the US (assuming I don't
find a companion monitor for it?)