Your assessment that the display is more or less TERRIBLE when using a TV
with WINDOWS is correct. My WinBook provides NTSC video output on demand,
ostensibly for when you're away from home and your docking station/port
expander, and want to use a BIG display. It's pretty sorry looking!
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 4:26 PM
Subject: Computers using a TV as the display
>I happened to notice an advert in a UK newspaper today.
>
>Apparently some company (related to Tiny Computers I believe) is offering
>a free PC if you use them as your telephone company and make a certain
>value of calls in each of the first 12 months (the details are not
>important).
>
>However, in the small print it says something like (from memory)
>
>'The PC is not supplied with a monitor. However the necessary
>cables/connections to use your TV as a display are included'
>
>So it appears that using a TV as a computer display is alive and well in
>the UK. Mind you, IMHO trying to view Windows (and I am sure that's the
>OS that came with this machine) on the average TV screen would make it
>even more unpleasant than usual.
>
>-tony
>
Received on Wed Jul 21 1999 - 17:54:25 BST