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From: porter@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Jeff Porter)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: 128 Monitor & 64 Printer questions
Message-ID: <559@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 31-Jul-86 01:33:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 31 01:33:08 1986
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> 1. My son is about to purchase a 128 and 1571 disk.  He is unsure regarding
> what type of monitor (RGB or Composite) to buy.  Can anyone give us some
> guidance?  Also, does anyone have any brand recommendations or caveats?
>
If you want to get 80 columns out of your 128, you are going to have
to buy an RGBI monitor (Commodore 1902 or equivalent).

If you only care about monochrome 80 columns, you might try hooking
up a monochrome composite monitor to pin 7 of the RGBI connector.
Pins 1 and 2 are ground.

Jeff Porter
Commodore Engineering