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From: viking@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Jon W. Backstrom)
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Subject: Re: Atari 800 Monitor Connection
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Date: 21 Nov 89 14:49:28 GMT
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In article <24307@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
> 
>Yer probably not going to believe this Jon.. (I didn't myself, at first)
>but the Atari monitor port has exactly the same pinouts as the C-64
>does..!
> 
>BobR

I've heard this, but maybe this applies to a different Commodore system.
I have a C-64 (the old brownish-grey model) with a 1702 monitor.  The
cable in the back which connects to the audio/chroma/luminance RCA plugs
is an *8* pin plug...seven around the bottom with one in the middle.

This won't plug into the Atari 800 5-pin socket, of course.  :-)

Was this changed in the C128 or later models?  (Here I sit with a collection
of the worlds first 8-bit systems, but I don't know what has happened since.)

On another note...anyone want to e-mail me to start a conversation?  Now
that I have an Atari 800 with 2 disk drives, I'd like to see how I can 
start to make it go (i.e. what software do I need to decode CC65, etc.)

Thanks for all your help!

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