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From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Atari 800 Monitor Connection
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Date: 23 Nov 89 06:41:24 GMT
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Jon Backstrom mentioned, concerning the monitor connector on C-64s...
 
>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.
 
Argh.. I thought about this after I'd posted my reply to the earlier
question...    my C-64 is one of the very first  (..like, $500) models..
the monitor connector on it is the same 5-pin DIN connector that my 800
used...  but I remembered (too late) that they changed the connector in
later versions.  Unfortunately I don't have the pinouts for the 8-pin
DIN connector.
 
(Incidentally, one interesting side-effect of changing the plug was that
it's now possible to plug in the 7-pin DIN *power supply* connector into
the monitor socket on the back of the computer... with the kind of 
fireworks you might expect from something like that..!  :)
 
BobR