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From: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: TRS 80 Monitor Pinout
Message-ID: <383@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 89 05:11:40 GMT
References: <24540@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
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Organization: W. J. Vermillion, Winter Park, FL
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In article <24540@cup.portal.com> JDurand@cup.portal.com (Gerald Joseph Durand) writes:
>A friend of mine just asked me to find the pinout for the original TRS 80
>monitor.  I believe he said it was a DIN plug.
>
>Anyone with this information may send it to me over the net or FAX it to
>me if it's a drawing.
>

Well the original TRS80 monitor was a hot-chassis RCA TV set with no tuner.
There are 3 wires in the cable.  One wire is a common ground.  One wire is 5
volts to go to the opto-isolator card in the monitor.  The 3rd is straight
video.  Shouldn't be to hard to figure out.  Find the ground, find the 5
volts, and the 3rd is video.

If you need to hook up a standard video monitor get an mono cassette din plug
to two rca plugs.  One will have the video.  Cut the other off.  Cheap, quick
and dirty.


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