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peverett · #31 06-26-2012, 08:08 PM

I have a small B&W TG&Y. Their headquarters was in Oklahoma, where I am originally from. The previous descriptions are pretty accurate. There was also a chain called OTASCO(Oklahoma Tire and Supply Company) there. As the name indicates, they did more hardware and automobile items. I do not have any of their stuff, but have seen one of their radios. As with TG&Y, OTASCO is long gone.

holmesuser01 · #32 06-26-2012, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by peverett

I have a small B&W TG&Y. Their headquarters was in Oklahoma, where I am originally from. The previous descriptions are pretty accurate. There was also a chain called OTASCO(Oklahoma Tire and Supply Company) there. As the name indicates, they did more hardware and automobile items. I do not have any of their stuff, but have seen one of their radios. As with TG&Y, OTASCO is long gone.

I used to wonder what an otasco was...

lnx64 · #33 06-27-2012, 02:17 AM

How's this?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...tgyyoutube.jpg

I have it hooked up to my Mac now..

Electronic M · #34 06-28-2012, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by lnx64

How's this?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...tgyyoutube.jpg

I have it hooked up to my Mac now..

Nice, though I think I may have one-uped you a few months back when I finally got my old trashpicked PC(that I stuffed into a VCR housing, and installed Ubuntu on) to output a color signal via S-video and an RF modulator to my old tube sets.

lnx64 · #35 06-28-2012, 08:15 PM

That's almost what I'm doing, with the signal.

I'm taking S-Video, but only using the luminance component, that way no chrominance distortion is present in the final modulated signal, since this TV an't use it anyway.

lnx64 · #36 06-28-2012, 08:29 PM

I was examining the signal coming from the computer, and noticed the frequency counter on my scope counted the vertical refresh at 61Hz. I would suspect that would be a problem on NTSC color sets, right? Shouldn't it be 59.9Hz?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ectricdesk.jpg

Electronic M · #37 06-28-2012, 09:38 PM

I seem to recall having to readjust the vert hold on my "VCR-computer" as I call it when using it with my color sets(never tried it on my monochrome ones). It displayed color just fine after I got the idea to unplug the VGA jack for the monitor I was using to test it and install the OS(BTW I've only gotten Ubuntu 11 to display color through the S-video jack...10 and 12 are useless for that).