12 Mar
2011
12 Mar
'11
2:32 a.m.
Was the TI-99/4a marketed with a TI-branded monitor? Or did most people
use a television?
12 Mar
12 Mar
3:38 a.m.
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Evan Koblentz <evan at snarc.net> wrote:
Was the TI-99/4a marketed with a TI-branded monitor?
?Or did most people use
a television?
How about these?
http://www.mainbyte.com/ti99/hardware/13_color_monitor.html
http://www.mainbyte.com/ti99/hardware/color_monitor.html
10:03 a.m.
On Mar 12, 2011, at 1:32 AM, Evan Koblentz wrote:
Yeah. As Geoff says, they did make TI branded monitors. There were two that I am aware of
- the early one, which was simply a modified 12" Zenith color television, and the
later one, which was a much better 10" composite monitor.
They were rare though. Most people bought the TI-99/4a because it was on clearance at the
toy store and looked like fun. They just hooked it up to the TV set. Note that the TI only
outputs composite video. The big clunky switchbox thing that came with the computer is a
standalone composite to RF modulator, and it's powered by a 12v line on the video DIN
plug.
For a "period appropriate" setup, you'd want an 80's TV set.
If, however, someone was serious enough to actually buy the PEB and upgrade the system,
they would also have a real monitor. Any of the usual composite color video monitors were
popular. TI's one for this era was pretty nice, but expensive and small. Something
like the Amdek Color I would probably have been more common.
-Ian
Was the TI-99/4a marketed with a TI-branded
monitor? Or did most people use a television?
--- On Mon, 3/14/11, Geoff Oltmans <oltmansg at bellsouth.net> wrote:
They were... a horribly, horribly
overpriced monitor (10" for $400). Most people did use TVs
or plain old composite monitors.
10:27 a.m.
I think the TI one was a rebranded Panasonic. My dad at the time bought a 13"
Panasonic composite monitor for about the same price if memory serves.
On Mar 14, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
On Mar 12,
2011, at 1:32 AM, Evan Koblentz wrote:
Yeah. As Geoff says, they did make TI branded monitors. There were two that I am aware of
- the early one, which was simply a modified 12" Zenith color television, and the
later one, which was a much better 10" composite monitor.
They were rare though. Most people bought the TI-99/4a because it was on clearance at the
toy store and looked like fun. They just hooked it up to the TV set. Note that the TI only
outputs composite video. The big clunky switchbox thing that came with the computer is a
standalone composite to RF modulator, and it's powered by a 12v line on the video DIN
plug.
For a "period appropriate" setup, you'd want an 80's TV set.
If, however, someone was serious enough to actually buy the PEB and upgrade the system,
they would also have a real monitor. Any of the usual composite color video monitors were
popular. TI's one for this era was pretty nice, but expensive and small. Something
like the Amdek Color I would probably have been more common.
-Ian Was the TI-99/4a marketed with a TI-branded
monitor? Or did most people use a television?
--- On Mon, 3/14/11, Geoff Oltmans <oltmansg at bellsouth.net> wrote:
They were... a horribly, horribly
overpriced monitor (10" for $400). Most people did use TVs
or plain old composite monitors.
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