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   HP van Braam (hp@mastodon.tmm.cx)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 09:06:04 JST HP van Braam

   In today's #retro #techtip: did you know that #NTSC stands for "Never Twice the Same Color"?

   When color television was invented engineers really wanted to break with the dreary black and white. So never the same color again!

   Follow for more quality #retrocomputing tech tips.

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     Tim Krief (timkrief@framapiaf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 09:06:02 JST Tim Krief

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     @hp I think it stands for "Not The Same Clockspeed" to let people know that it's not their console is not going to run at the same clock speed than on a PAL TV, but I could be wrong 🤣

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     HP van Braam (hp@mastodon.tmm.cx)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 09:06:11 JST HP van Braam

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     • Tim Krief

     @timkrief maybe I'll make that tomorrow's tech tip. 😀

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     HP van Braam (hp@mastodon.tmm.cx)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 09:06:13 JST HP van Braam

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     • Gregor

     @gxanine what are you talking about, PAL? 😋

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     Gregor (gxanine@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 09:06:15 JST Gregor

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     @hp this is satire, right? 🙃