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From: drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Where do I find a adapter cable for an IBM color monitor?
Keywords: IBM, monitor, adapter
Message-ID: <21762@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 21 May 91 06:02:10 GMT
References: <12662@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <21754@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale)
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Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <21754@cbmvax.commodore.com> carolyn@cbmvax.commodore.com (Carolyn Scheppner - CATS) writes:
>In article <12662@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> teddbdmn@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Ted David Boardman) writes:
>>I have a IBM Enhanced Color Display monitor, model number 5154001,
>>which uses a 9-pin cable.  I would like to know how to hook this
>>up to my Amiga 500.  I'd prefer to just buy a cable that would
>>let me do this, but part numbers and instructions to build my
>>own could be ok too...
>
>Try "Cables To Go" at 800-826-7904
> or Redmond Cable  at 206-868-2168
>
>(Phone numbers are old but hopefully they are still there).
>
>One of them used to sell adapters for Amiga to IBM montors.
>
>-- 
>==========================================================================
> Carolyn Scheppner -- Tech. Mgr. CATS - Commodore Amiga Technical Support
> PHONE 215-431-9180 {uunet,rutgers}!cbmvax!carolyn  carolyn@commodore.com
>
> Reentrant code - the only way to fly. 
>==========================================================================

you can't hook an EGA display to an amiga - the scan rates are all wrong.
you *can* hook a CGA display to an amiga - but then you only get 16 colors
instead of 4096.

  --Scotty
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