On 03/01/2016 18:32, "Eric Christopherson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 03, 2016, Adrian Graham wrote: >> On 03/01/2016 02:06, "Terry Stewart" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> It's interesting that none of my present TVs would tune properly to the RF >>> of the ZX81 but they will with some of the other RF only computers like the >>> Coco 1 and Atari 400? More circuitry in the latter perhaps... >> >> Going from an old, old memory from when TVs became auto-tune rather than >> dial-in or 'press-a-button-and-hold-until-something-happens' > > What's this about holding a button? Modern technology :) Going OT for a moment here (sorry Jay) over xmas I was talking VCRs with my Missus and went off searching for the very first one I used back in '83-ish, a Ferguson Videostar. I was surprised to re-learn that the channel tuners on that were all the 'spinning wheel' type. There was one on fleabay for 10ukp but I wasn't allowed to bid. -- Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer collection?
