What kind of display did you use in the early days?

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Sun Jul 03, 2016 1:42 am

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eslapion · Post by **eslapion** » Sun Jul 03, 2016 1:44 am

My grandfather's large B/W TV which dated from the late 1950s !!

ADDED EDIT:
Reading other people's post, I realize back in 1983, I felt quite miserable when comparing with my neighbor's VIC-20 setup who had a nice little 14" color TV. Now I dawn on the fact I had a near perfect sound quality when setting to channel 4 (the default was 3 on the modulator, I think) and the BW picture was very crisp/sharp with no noise or display artefacting.

Most importantly my neighbor had no memory expansion and I had a 8k RAM cart which I used to play dumped cartridges. Gotta admit it was better to have the expansion than a color TV.

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Sun Jul 03, 2016 1:54 am

The colour TV of my parents.

litody · Post by **litody** » Sun Jul 03, 2016 4:21 am

A small B/W portable with a dial tuner. At the time I think the main family TV was still B/W as well, so no colour anywhere in the house.

beamrider · Post by **beamrider** » Sun Jul 03, 2016 4:56 am

I bought a colour TV for £40 (all I could afford) but it was terrible, it buzzed like mad and had horrible colour bleed.

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Sun Jul 03, 2016 5:43 am

My parents' big, clunky b/w TV set, which buzzed a lot and took forever to display something readable

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Boray · Post by **Boray** » Sun Jul 03, 2016 6:07 am

This little black and white TV. Look at the little radio by the TV used to tune in to the tape sound.

Maybe one should pick out that TV from the closet and only use tape... for the right retro feeling.

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Sun Jul 03, 2016 6:46 am

Hey Boray! Great retro feeling! The TV set and the VIC are off though

majikeyric · Post by **majikeyric** » Sun Jul 03, 2016 6:49 am

Yes! very proud of his friendly computer

Cute pic !

Post by **joshuadenmark** » Fri Jul 08, 2016 10:29 pm

Mike wrote:The colour TV of my parents.

Same

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Sat Jul 09, 2016 7:21 am

Oh the fights over the family TV when you were playing a long game and someone's favourite TV show was about to start!

pixel · Post by **pixel** » Sat Jul 09, 2016 7:44 am

We barely had proper shirts on our butts but there has always been a colour TV.

darkatx · Post by **darkatx** » Sat Jul 09, 2016 3:57 pm

Whatever 14 inch display we had might be B/W or colour depending on which one was available.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Sat Jul 09, 2016 8:24 pm

On rare occasion my family's color tv, but I think I used an older B&W model mostly. As most of you know, that would make no difference to me. :p The only problem with BW tvs was a tendency for overscan. I could only see 21 of the 22 columns!

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Sat Jul 09, 2016 11:40 pm

My VIC had black and white, but I remember when I got my first colour TV for my C64. Oh, these colours.. amazing. I made a new basic game because I had colours.

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