7 Jul
2005
7 Jul
'05
10:07 p.m.
LOL, I learned that lesson recently while trying to connect my Apple //c to
a 31-inch television. It works for BASIC, but not in AppleWorks, where the
manual 40/80 column switch doesn't help. Guess it's time for me to acquire
an Apple monitor.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Tony Duell
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 3:30 PM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Commodore 64, Commodore 64sx enthusiasts?
I think that commodore went wrong in three areas.
1. they never put a standart rs232 port on their stuff. sure you could
use 1488's , but that was not the point. There was no real rs232.
True... I have much the same moan about certain HP machines where the HPIB
port is built-in (or an easy-to-find module), but the RS232 port is almost
impossible to find now.
2. The disk drives were basically computers to themselves;
Have you ever opened an HP91xx drive box? There's normally a 68B09 inside...
3. 40 columns just ain't cool. 80 is the way to go.
Yes, but rememebr that Commodore were going for the home market, and wanted
to be able to use a normal TV set as a monitor. I've not found a TV that can
legibly display 80 columns if you feed the signal in to the aerial input
(composite video inputs were not at all common then).
-tony