Amiga Vendors?

Ethan O'Toole ethan at 757.org
Wed Jun 17 16:39:44 CDT 2020


>> I guess so, too. Connecting Amiga to plasma was probably the least
>> hassle of all alternatives. PC would need something special (either
>> card or converter?), and a hard drive, and a big box, and separate
>> keyboard and reboot every four(ty) days - Amiga 500 could be just
>> "stuffed under the rug". And after loading a "demo" from a floppy,
>> there was no moving parts involved. It could just sit there and
>> display flying images for years.
>
> Exactly. Maybe once a week, turn it off, put in the new floppy from
> HQ, turn it back on, or something like that.

The early plasma TVs usually had BNC RGBHV inputs and such. They could 
take VGA in very easily. I'm pretty sure a PC would have been way easier 
to deal with and could reach much higher resolutions... without needing a 
DB-23 connector :-)

 			- Ethan

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: Ethan O'Toole




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