2 Nov
1998
2 Nov
'98
10:08 a.m.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Solid?
Translucent? Seems to me from
the few Timex models I've seen in action, the video is not so hot. Can be
tempermental depending what TV it is hooked to. Bad
sync (not rock
stable), noisy and rather unsharp. Cheap design and manufacture all
around. At least it translated to a cheap price.
Well, there's a gray background, with black lettering. The bar(s) are
solid black, and are about 2" wide, and scroll from the top to the bottom.
It does this on every TV I connect it to.
Bingo. Save your own programs or use commercial ones. There are a few
programs of the "home accounting" ilk released by Timex Sinclair as
cassettes.
Hmm.. Cheap design shows through here, too. There's not even a connector to
hook up the "motor remote" on the cassette. You have to turn it on and off
yourself (or have a VSR tape deck). All in all, even though bigger, the
CoCo is about 2k times better (bigger IS better...).
-Jason
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