In message <[email protected]>, Magnus Danielson writes:
>Joe Gwinn wrote:

>> The exception to this was that video generators were (and still 
>> are) often locked to the AC line so that hum bars would not drift across 
>> the screen.
>
>I have never seen this in any of the devices I've seen. It is certainly 
>not what we do in the TV world either. Examples would be good.

This feature disappeared with color television, specifically NTSC, which
tweaked the vertical frequency just a tad lower than 60Hz.

Poul-Henning

PS: But NTSC gave us the 14.31818181.. MHz frequency, as imortalized
by the ghastly colors of the IBM CGA.

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