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From: mf1@ukc.ac.uk (Michael Fischer)
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Subject: Re: Using NTSC computers Down Under??
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Date: Mon, 31-Mar-86 05:44:26 EST
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I have used North American computers overseas for several years in
varying conditions, with only failure a recent Macintosh power supply,
I assume is Mac's fault.  Otherwise performance was perfect.  I used
C<64, Vic-20, and Apple2+ with assorted NTST and PAL sets and composite
monitors.  NTST sets and monitors work fine, with a faint flicker in
Pakistan, but I think this was due to a 2hz sub-frequency on power
line. With PAL, the picture loses all color, and is rather squat, as
there are 625 scan lines on PAL and 525 on NTST, leaving a large blank
space at top and bottom.  Sound carriers on RF mod. vanish also.
However the B/W picture is sharp, if squat.  I don't know what RGB
would do.

Michael Fischer
Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Computing
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