[Coco] WTB: PAL CoCo (1, 2, or 2B) for shipment to USA

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John did you know you already have a PAL-M coco? Your beautiful CP-400 II. But i do agree pal-m is closer to ntsc than the european pal.

Btw euro pal machines dont have artifact color, do you play with them?

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On 2013-02-27, at 9:14 PM, "John W. Linville" <linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:

> PAL was the video system formerly(?) used in Europe, Asia, Australia,
> and probably some other places before the advent of digital broadcast
> television.  It was an alternative to NTSC and SECAM.
> 
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL
> 
> If you don't live in those places then you probably don't have what
> I need. :-)
> 
> Thanks anyway!
> 
> John
> 
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 07:00:17PM -0500, Alan Jones wrote:
>> Hi John,
>> What do you mean by "PAL"?
>> I have several spare CoCo's in my collection.
>> Just let me know what you need.
>> 
>> Al
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
>> Behalf Of John W. Linville
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 3:09 PM
>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>> Subject: [Coco] WTB: PAL CoCo (1, 2, or 2B) for shipment to USA
>> 
>> Greetings!
>> 
>> I've been working to tune the timings of my 44-color picture viewer to work
>> with PAL CoCo machines.  I found someone to do testing for me and I think I
>> have that working -- keep watching the "Stupid VDG Tricks" for more
>> information coming soon (hopefully)...
>> 
>> Anyway, I think it would be nice if I could just do such testing for myself
>> in the future if I were to be working on another project.  So, I'd like to
>> acquire a PAL CoCo machine of my own.  Yes, I am properly equipped to handle
>> the different power and display requirements. :-)
>> 
>> Does anyone on the list have an extra working PAL CoCo that they would like
>> to offer for sale?  It would need to be shipped to the USA, Zip code 27302
>> (North Carolina).  Please contact me directly (i.e. off list) with your
>> offer!
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> P.S.  Yes, I checked ebay.co.uk and ebay.com.au -- apparently the CoCo folks
>> in the UK and Oz are holding tight to their CoCos...
>> I also tried ebay.de, but Mein Deutsch ist nicht gut...
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