Apple TV comp combo: Somebody needs to save this!

[kx250rider]

I saw this on eBay, and it is really a weird one! I never saw one before, never knew they made them, and I was a TV repairman at that time! An old McIntosh computer built into a (presumed Sony) TV set.

http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-Apple-Macin...QQcmdZViewItem

Charles

[RetroHacker]

Yeah, these are pretty rare, but they're nothing too amazing when it comes to the television side of things, since it's not so much a TV with a computer built in, as it is a computer with a TV tuner card. It's basically just a Performa 550 with a TV tuner card and painted black. The display just a computer monitor - for a while Apple was using Sony tubes in their better model displays.

So, as a TV repairman, you wouldn't have seen one. If anything went kafluey - and it shouldn't have, these machines were very well made - it would have gone back to the Apple dealer.

-Ian

[kx250rider]

Originally Posted by RetroHacker

So, as a TV repairman, you wouldn't have seen one. If anything went kafluey - and it shouldn't have, these machines were very well made - it would have gone back to the Apple dealer.

-Ian

That explains it... But I did see a few Magnavox T995-chassis 19" color sets with an Odyssey game built-in! Not lately though; I guess those all got open safety caps and suffered the CRT neck being cut off by runaway high voltage

Charles

[RetroHacker]

Originally Posted by Kaye-Halbert TV

But I did see a few Magnavox T995-chassis 19" color sets with an Odyssey game built-in! Not lately though; I guess those all got open safety caps and suffered the CRT neck being cut off by runaway high voltage

Now one of _those_ I'd like to find. I've never seen one, but I'm always hunting.

-Ian

[daro]

I saw one of those in Dubbo (Australia) in '94 at an Apple dealers showroom, the TV card had teletext as well if I remember correctley & the TV did not work in windowed mode as modern TV cards in PC's do.