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From: jjhoxsey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Skyfire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: PCjr Monitor question?!
Message-ID: <4356@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 90 16:28:09 GMT
References: <90353.020831L70SI@CUNYVM.BITNET>
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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?  I have not seen this PCjr (or any other) in a long time
>   so I dont even know what type of connector it has,  though I think it has a
>   composite video out, but dont remember if this is how they used to connect
>   the monitor.
>2> If it is not a plain vanilla cga (TTL RGB) what type of monitor can he
>   use?  Color is not essential, but is preferred.
>

The jr uses a color composite output.  There are still a few places
that sell reconditioned jr monitors (as well as reconditioned and new
jr's), so you could try one of those places, too.  I recently received
a pamphlet from a place called Computer Reset somewhere in Texas.
They were advertising quite a bit about jr hardware.  If I can find
the thing, I'll mail you about it.


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