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From: petros@mad.cis.ohio-state.edu (barry j petros)
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Subject: Re: PCjr Monitor question?!
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Date: 19 Dec 90 14:10:06 GMT
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In article <90353.020831L70SI@CUNYVM.BITNET> L70SI@CUNYVM writes:
>Hi,
>   A friend of mine uses a PCjr at home for wordprocessing, and recently
>his monitor died leaving him without any display.
>   My questions are:
>1> What type of monitor does he need?  I know that the JR used an advanced
>   version of CGA (advanced being a relative term), but will a plain vanilla
>   CGA monitor work?

This is the second time this question has come up recently so I'll try and 
give an answer. :) .... I had a jr a long time ago and the original jr monitor
was DOA ... having some problems obtaining another monitor some sales
droid gave me an IBM CGA color monitor and some funky little cable. So the
answer to you question is yes you may use a CGA monitor with jr but you'll
have to find one of these adaptor cables or the specs to build one.

The other question was can a jr monitor be hooked to a CGA card. I'd imagine
that this could be done as the cables was probably just changing the connector
and pinout and nothing else.

Now all we need is someone who knows how the jrs video connector is pinned.


barry