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From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: 1040 ST vs. 520 ST w/upgrade
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Date: Wed, 30-Apr-86 21:25:15 EDT
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> > > As far as we can see 1040's will not support tv!  Only monitors.

> > The store that sold me mine said different--that the rf modulator and
> > composite generators would arrive later and be fitted at no charge
> > "in a couple of months".......

> Sorry folks.  Retrofitting a modulator is not in the cards.  The dealer must
> have been misinformed -- but not by Atari.
> --->Neil @ Atari

This means that Neochrome, which came with my 1040, is useless and always 
will be. It means that my user's manual is inaccurate, and that when it tells
me about how to connect up the TV set it's talking fantasy. 

I do want a color output short of getting the color monitor. I have a TV set
with a video (composite) input jack. In my previous posting I said I'd 
checked pin 2 of the monitor connector and it was dead: in fact this 
wasn't true, a scope shows an output there, but it wouldn't drive the TV.
What exactly is this? Someone else was saying that it is indeed composite
video; if I haven't got what the literature promises, then what do I have?