Classic color video

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Thu Apr 1 18:28:48 1999

<I believe that's just an attenation control; puts a 75 ohm resistor before
<the monitor.. Like the Pad control on a sound mixer I think, just brings
<the level down to avoid damaging things... or something ;P
<
<Kevin

No! It's for those system that use terminated cables rather than random
impedences. For long cables they should be matches at each end to the
nominal impedence of the cable and the swich turns on the resistor that does
that. Just like the loads used for thin eithernet(or thick).

Allison
Received on Thu Apr 01 1999 - 18:28:48 BST