> 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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