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From: arthur@pnet02.gryphon.com (Arthur L. Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Atari 800 Monitor Connection
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Date: 22 Nov 89 15:40:32 GMT
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viking@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Jon W. Backstrom) writes:
>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.  :-)

The manual for my monitor (Magnavox CM8762) has the same cable diagram for
Atari, Commodore (not C-128), and Texas Instruments computers.
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