New monitors on old machines

[John Foust]

At 03:04 PM 11/2/2006, Chris M wrote:
> I seem to remember something about RS-170 style video
>being 1 volt peak to peak or .7 volts peak. "P2P"
>seems to indicate a signal that is half negative
>going? 

Wasn't there a lot of slop in the supposedly RS-170 that
many 70s-80s computers were generating?  There's the spec,
and then there's the just-good-enough signal they'd generate 
by any hack that looked good on the expected type and quality
of output monitor.

- John