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From: t-robje@microsoft.UUCP (Rob Jellinghaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MicroTV for your MacII ($395)
Message-ID: <7285@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 8 Aug 89 19:09:12 GMT
References: <20700@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: t-robje@microsoft.UUCP (Rob Jellinghaus)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <20700@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu () writes:
>Bushnell (of Atari fame)  will soon be selling a real-time video card
>that includes a complete 109channel tv.  The TV plays (runs) under
>multifinder.  So now I can watch Star Trek while I program :)

It does look impressive, if not for the fact that the biggest window you
can get out of the thing is DA-sized.  (At least, that's the interpretation
I put on the article with its accompanying picture.)  You can't have a full-
screen window showing your TV program; the best you can do is a small
window, probably about 128 x 128 pixels.  Too bad... just when I thought
I'd be able to use my II as a TV...

If anyone knows any differently, please let me know!  I'd like to buy it
if it were actually useful as a TV, rather than just a small hack.  (I mean,
who wants to really watch a 5" TV?)

>Mark Interrante   		  Software Engineering Research Center
>mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu		  CIS Department, University of Florida 32611

Rob Jellinghaus (robertj@CS.Yale.EDU; only at M-soft for the summer)