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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!mundoe!arc
- From: arc@mundoe.maths.mu.OZ.AU (Andrew Conway)
- Subject: Re: Equipment Source
- Message-ID: <arc.712200187@mundoe>
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <1992Jul26.235412.8768@udel.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 01:23:07 GMT
- Approved: me
- Lines: 35
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- york@snow-white.ee.udel.edu (Wild William) writes:
-
- >I am still working on my NTSC to VGA project and need sources for the
- >hardware components.
-
- >TV tuner.
-
- Get this out of a TV.
-
- If you don't want to search for the appropriate point, get a VCR,
- and just use the video output.
-
- >D/A converters and A/D converters.
-
- Local corner-electronics component store.
-
- >Things like that...
-
- >any ideas?
-
- Actually building a NTSC decoder yourself if likely to be fairly
- difficult, and if you have to ask questions like that then you
- would probably find it very difficult. You would probably be best
- off looking for a commercial device. Look in one of the ``products''
- newsgroups.
-
- ObHack: Bootstrapping a system by programming a static RAM chip on one
- computer, placing a battery accross it, and physically removing it and
- putting it into another system. [ Reason? EPROM was too slow...but fast
- static RAM was available ].
-
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- Andrew Conway arc@mundoe.maths.mu.oz.au
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