"qholmes" wrote:
> Well, my TV is a Sharp 21" regular TV. About 9
> years old i guess. Nothing special.
Oh okay, I thought you might of had a Digital Telly
with all the mod cons.
> I bought a 75 to 300 ohm converter to try. It is
> ment to convert the other way so that someone
> can put a cable signal into an antena input but i
> dicided to try it the other way so that i could
> take the antena signal out of the switch box and
> put it into the cable antena input.
That's unusual, pretty much here, all tellys use a
standard 75 Ohm coaxual cable.
> I think that it worked but i am not sure that my
> VIC is working.
> When i turn it on i get a black screen with a
> repeating sort of static pattern.
> Some times when i turn it on i get a blue
> background with a seemingly random character
> set in a box in the foreground. It is definetly the
> VIC characters.
> So does anyone know where i should go from
> here. When i packed it away years ago i am
> quite sure it was working fine.
Sorry, but I don't know too much about VICs to
know what the trouble is, but I'm sure someone
here could help!
Cheers,
CP/M User.