Name that thing of the past
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It's a colour converter for a black and white television set,, converts black and white image to a colour image
Just a guess - in the years before the three colour gun colour TV's became more popular, there were a few products/projects that had a spinning wheel with the three filters matching up with the light projected from the black & white tube. It wasn't easy as you still had to decode the three colours and make sure the tube was projecting just that colour. I never saw a product but saw the project described in an old electronics magazine.
I think CBM basic was the version of basic put out by Commodore Business Machines. The opening screen of a Vic 20 or 64 ?
I had no idea these things existed, until I saw an episode of "Happy Days" (mid 70's) when Howard, the father, bought a poor man's version of a colour converter. lol
Looks like the opening screen from a VIC-20. I recall being amazed that over half the total RAM of 8K was swallowed by the operating system. But there still was enough to do up a wee BASIC routine to fire a solenoid to trigger a Super 8mm camera on single frame mode to do a timelapse movie of a bean growing.
Yes, the Vic 20 opening screen. How many screens of coding was allowed before it ran out of memory? One screen looks like about 500 bytes, so maybe 7 screens of code?
