-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Vintage Macs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, September 06, 2001 2:12 PM
Subject: Mac TV Madness (semi-OT)
>Howdy Y'all,
>Wow, didn't know there would be such a disparity in opinion as to the
>viability of the Mac TV as a computer. Thank you to those who
>emailed me with suggestions and links. I maxed out the ram and got
>the TV mode working.
>
>I thought I would share something that I find interesting, as it may
>be of benefit to anyone out there with a Mac TV or TV tuner card in
>their Performa. I seemed to recall an old usenet thread about Sony
>remote codes working on Mac TV tuner cards. So I fired up my old
>Newton 130 (hey, no laughing;) and on it there was a program called
>Sony Remote that I had once used as a novelty to operate my Sony cd
>player. Yup, it works to change the channels, volume,
>mute--everything but brightness and contrast.
>Should anyone out there want to try this, the Newton package is
>called Sony Remote, is dated 1994 and is attributed to Craig Richmond
>at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>--Matt
I don't own one, but it is pretty cool to think that that works.
It'd be good to own one of these Darth Vaders.
Jeff
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