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Instant Color TV (1962)[^]
I had never heard of this hoax before. Did this fool people in the US and other parts of the world or was it mostly just in Sweden? Anyone remember this?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
modified 16-Nov-16 15:20pm.
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Actually, a method of transmitting viewable color to B&W Televisions was proposed and somewhat tested. It had to do with perceived color by rapidly stroking the various regions on the screen to give the sensation of color. (You may have seen this, for example, on spinning B&W patterns).
I cannot say why it wasn't pursued - I'd guess inducing headaches may have been amongst them.
How to make a Black and White television show color | Physics Forums - The Fusion of Science and Community[^]
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Well actually...
... there is something called composite artifact colors.[^]
This was used to bring a hint of color into monochrome computer graphics. It was in fashion for a time on the 8 bit Ataris or the Apple ][. A long time I thought that these were just ugly monochrome graphics modes until I finally heard that the programmers tried to make use of this effect on purpose.
Edit: Oh no! In the Wiki article they mention the TRS-80 color computer! It had a Motorola 6847 graphics chip that produced those beautiful artifacts. Guess what graphics chip I have here for the little computer I'm building?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Can I use nylon stockings to convert W10 back to W7? 
Marc
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: Can I use nylon stockings to convert W10 back to W7?
Because the nylon blurs the screen making it harder to use, it actually converts a windows machine to linux. You'll have to command line everything.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Can't make W10 get better,
but can convert W7 to W10 virtual machine by removing the keyboard.
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Wow, that article brings back some memories.
Around 1968 we used black pantyhose as anti-glare on CRT screens that were set into benchtops. I don't recall any colour artifacts, but it was very effective in breaking up reflections.
In the same general era, my sister-in-law had a blue/pink/green overlay on her B&W tv. I found it disconcerting.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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We were told to convert to color only had to replace a tube; had visions of this being something akin to a small piece of hose pipe.
Later we did upgrade, and got the latest model complete with a remote control - attached to the TV by a wire. That was really innovative as if you lost the remote could follow the wire back from the TV - why don't they do that these days?
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lopati: roaming wrote: remote control - attached to the TV by a wire
We got one of those. Ours was just a channel changer. You still had to turn the TV off and on at the TV.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: blue/pink/green overlay on her B&W tv
I remember wanting one of those. But hey, I was a kid, what did I know.
I do remember watching the moon landing on a color TV. Why? I do not know as the camera was black and white.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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xkcd: TV Problems[^]
Late (as seems the norm these days, hope there's nothing going wrong with Randall) - but worth waiting for!
Yeah. I understand how ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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  Well we've been there!
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The more things change...
xkcd: Success[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I make my cakes with Sodium Hydroxide: the cake is a lye.
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Irrelevant. All your pastries are belong to us.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I'd eat it, but there is no spoon.
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On what do you base that? I suspect your alka-lying about it.
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This isn't the Thought of the Day I was looking for.
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Quote: You can go about your business. Move along... move along.
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Willie was a chemist
Now Willie is no more
For what he thought was H2O
Was H2SO4
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
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Quote: Little Willie from the mirror
licked the Mercury all off
thinking in his childish manner
it would cure his whooping cough
at the funeral Willie's mother
smartly said to Mrs. Brown
'twas a chilly day for Willie
when the Mercury went down.
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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Do you have codenames for your builds / versions? I usually don't but could resist naming release 1.0.737.0 "Boeing"
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