A simple way of obtaining a composite video output signal from the GAMMA-11 computing system

Many departments of nuclear medicine are currently using the GAMMA-11 computer to process clinical images. Often practitioners would like to display the output pictures on conventional cathode-ray monitors that they already have. Some may want to record the images on a video tape recorder. Both of these devices require a composite video signal, which the computer does not provide. Such a signal can be obtained, however, by combining two signals that the system does produce. A number of relatively complicated systems for doing this have been suggested. The desired result can be obtained, however, by using two ten-cent resistors in the simple circuit described in this paper.