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Re: Video recording of PC displays.

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From: Tom Welsh
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1986 20:24
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I hooked up my VCR to my IBM-PC1 back in 1982 by doing the unbelievably
complicated procedure of running a coax cable from the video composite
OUTPUT on the CGA card to the video INPUT on the VCR.  I did this for
two reasons:

      1.  I was too cheap to buy a color monitor and too cheap to
          buy (and too stupid to build) a RF box to generate a
          signal for my color TV, and I already owned a VCR.

      2.  I wanted to record the graphic output of a video game I
          was building, for copyright purposes.

Of course, this isn't exactly what was requested (RGB) but it can
easily be used.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!vrdxhq!tom
From: tom@vrdxhq.UUCP (Tom Welsh)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Video recording of PC displays.
Message-ID: <2199@vrdxhq.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Oct-86 16:24:34 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 10 16:24:34 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Oct-86 20:43:40 EDT
References: <2185@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: Verdix Corporation, Chantilly, VA
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Summary: Hooking VCRs to PC