[Coco] Technical question re: video

[Brian Blake]

Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:    >First, please setup a word wrap in your editor and set it to about 72 
>characters per line. I'd have to scroll about 10 feet to the right to 
>see the end of the line on some of this, and its only a 15" lappy 
>screen. The reader screen in thunderbird (linux of course) shows it 
>wrapped, but the composer screen shows it all on one line.
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  Sorry, I use yahoo mail for my personal email. The free version. So can't even set up Outlook Express or Thunderbird on POP3 for my mail client.
   
  
<Second, if it has a 30 pin interface, I'd expect to find the actual 
<controller on the motherboard, and unraveling ntsc video enough to drive 
<that lcd is going to take some pretty inventive tactics to accomplish. 
<I believe you would be, at 50 cents an hour for your time, hundreds of 
<dollars ahead of the game to just go buy a more suitable display at 
<wallyworld(sub your fav dealer here). Preferably something with either 
<a svga input and use Roys adaptor, or something with an svhs input and 
<use that adapter.
   
  I've had a little more time to do some digging into the matter and I think you're right. The LCD controller hardware is a little pricy. I was looking to use a 10.4" laptop LCD since it had a good shor at fitting into the Model III/IV case with little modification to the case. Earthlcd.com has a few converters that should do this, but, the price is $150. A little more than I was wanting to spend for this part of the project. So, I'll probably be stuck using a color tv...
   
  
 Thanks,
 
 Brian


		
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