Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!nosc!logicon.com!tots!tep From: tep@tots.UUCP (Tom Perrine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Extension cords in general: Getting away from it all. Message-ID: <168@tots.UUCP> Date: 6 Aug 90 21:39:34 GMT References: <85117@srcsip.UUCP> Reply-To: tep@tots.Logicon.COM (Tom Perrine) Organization: Logicon, Inc., San Diego, California Lines: 32 In article peck@ral.rpi.edu (Joseph Peck) writes: >In article <85117@srcsip.UUCP> carpent@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Todd Carpenter) writes: >> >>I have a rather hairbrained idea: (Well, numerous ones. But you knew that) >> >> I want to extend my keyboard, mouse and moniter a *long* way away from my >> Amiga. ... >I would like to add two more to his list. How long can the RGB cable >be extended, and how long can the composite video cable from an A500 >video add-on-thingy be? I would like to be able to put a monitor or >composite TV in a different room than the CPU, but don't really want >to overload the video drivers and have to read smoke signals! > > Thanks, > Joe Peck > peck@ral.rpi.edu I have built a 12 foot RGB cable from mini-coax. I looks great from my 500 to a Sony 27XBR. I am fairly sure that I could easily double the length with no problems. I used the directions from the Amazing Computing article of several years ago. Make sure you use at least a *good* (not necessarily great) grade of coax. Tom Perrine (tep) |Internet: tep@tots.Logicon.COM Logicon |UUCP: nosc!hamachi!tots!tep Tactical and Training Systems Division |-or- sun!suntan!tots!tep San Diego CA |GENIE: T.PERRINE "Harried: with preschoolers" |+1 619 455 1330 Home of the _Tower Operator Training System_ as seen in the SunTech Journal.