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From: root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: RGB-TV monitor cable
Message-ID: <6971.27D9BE6C@zswamp.fidonet.org>
Date: 9 Mar 91 18:49:23 GMT
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS - Kitchener, Ontario
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Robert Andrew Knop (rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu ) wrote:

 >My question is, where can one get ahold of a cable which 
 >will let you display
 >the 128's 80 column screen in monochrome on a composite 
 >monitor or a TV?

   I don't know about modulating it for a TV, but you can wire pin 7 of the 
RGB port (monochrome signal) to the luma (or video) inputs of most composite 
monitors such as the 1701/1702.  Don't forget also to wire the ground... pin 
1 I think.
 




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