[Coco] Technical question re: video

[Christopher Hawks]

Brian Blake wrote:
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> Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:    >First, please setup a word wrap in your editor and set it to about 72 
>> characters per line. I'd have to scroll about 10 feet to the right to 
>> see the end of the line on some of this, and its only a 15" lappy 
>> screen. The reader screen in thunderbird (linux of course) shows it 
>> wrapped, but the composer screen shows it all on one line.
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>   Sorry, I use yahoo mail for my personal email. The free version. So can't even set up Outlook Express or Thunderbird on POP3 for my mail client.
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> <Second, if it has a 30 pin interface, I'd expect to find the actual 
> <controller on the motherboard, and unraveling ntsc video enough to drive 
> <that lcd is going to take some pretty inventive tactics to accomplish. 
> <I believe you would be, at 50 cents an hour for your time, hundreds of 
> <dollars ahead of the game to just go buy a more suitable display at 
> <wallyworld(sub your fav dealer here). Preferably something with either 
> <a svga input and use Roys adaptor, or something with an svhs input and 
> <use that adapter.
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>   I've had a little more time to do some digging into the matter and I think you're right. The LCD controller hardware is a little pricy. I was looking to use a 10.4" laptop LCD since it had a good shor at fitting into the Model III/IV case with little modification to the case. Earthlcd.com has a few converters that should do this, but, the price is $150. A little more than I was wanting to spend for this part of the project. So, I'll probably be stuck using a color tv...

Brian:

	If you use a color TV with S-Video input, you can use my RGB to S-Video 
adater on a Coco 3.

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Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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