Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

On 1/15/19 2:48 AM, Mia Magnusson wrote:

> Btw at the time they had some complicated options for the customer for
> remote control. A VS 200 were supplied without any remote control and
> without any remote control receiver, but it had a strange multi pin
> DIN-ish socket on the rear. You could buy an IR reciever which were
> fitted underneath and on the rear of the recorder. You could also buy
> an interface/cable which connected to a 4-pin DIN socket on a Grundig
> TV set. The remote control itself were also sold separately. The
> rationale behind this mess was that if you had the appropriate TV you'd
> only buy the interface/cable and use the IR receiver in the TV and the
> VCR button on the remote of the TV. If you had a Grundig TV but without
> the 4-pin socket, you could buy the IR receiver but still use the
> remote of the TV. If you didn't have any of that, you'd buy both the
> IR receiver and the remote. Or you just placed the recorder nearby your
> favorite chair/sofa.

And nowadays we're back to that with HDMI-CEC... I control my Raspberry 
Pi with KODI via the TV remote.

  Gerrit