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| **Connecting Classic Computers** | **Connecting Classic Computers** | ||
| - | If you want to live the real life of 8-bit madness you need to track down an old tube TV. Connecting them to the Atari or C64 is amazingly easy. | + | If you want to live the real life of 8-bit madness you need to track down an old tube TV. Connecting them to the Atari or C64 is amazingly easy. |
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| * RCA2RF | * RCA2RF | ||
| - | * basically you only need a phono cable with a RCA to RF adapter, then screw that into the back of the TV | + | * basically you only need a phono cable with a RCA (female) |
| * a phono cable can be one of those red+white cables, you'll only use one side, red or white it does not matter | * a phono cable can be one of those red+white cables, you'll only use one side, red or white it does not matter | ||
| * that little box that that used to go between the computer and the TV is no longer necessary, new signals are digital> so the old TV can't pick up the signal> so there is no need for the computer vs antenna mode> it's all computer all of the time | * that little box that that used to go between the computer and the TV is no longer necessary, new signals are digital> so the old TV can't pick up the signal> so there is no need for the computer vs antenna mode> it's all computer all of the time | ||
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| + | * harder to find is the RCA (male) to RF (female) adapter, if you do have one of these then any coax cable can be used from the computer> | ||
| + | * composite signal | ||
| + | * something like the Commodore Amiga [[rw: | ||
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