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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A different monitor cable question
Message-ID: <2337@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Sep-87 00:57:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2337
Posted: Mon Sep 14 00:57:38 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 15-Sep-87 04:29:44 EDT
References: <1527@aramis.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 23
Keywords: amiga -> IBM *MONOCROME*

In article <1527@aramis.rutgers.edu> mende@aramis.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende) writes:
>   Hi ... I am posting this for a friend of mine (TLIMONCE@DREW.BITNET)
> 
>      I have an Amiga 1000 (yea!) with a borrowed monitor.  Well, recently this
> monitor was needed by the loaner :-(.  I have an Amiga 1000 with 2.5Meg ram,
> 2 drives, all that good stuff.  But no monitor. (again, :-( )
>      Now that I have arrived at college I have (part of the un-avoidable
> frosh package) a Zenith Z-157 (yucky MS-DOS) with a monochrome monitor.
> The monitor is a standard IBM Monochrome-type monitor.  Somewhere I have seen
> specs for a cable that would let me use this monitor with my Amiga.

Sorry, the IBM monochrome monitor is not compatible with the Amiga - the scan
rates and sync polarities are incorrect.  A clever person could modifiy the
monitor, but then it wouldn't work too well on the PC clone.

If $$$ are important, the best thing would be to get a composite monochrome
monitor and plug it into the Composite output jack on the A1000.  Decent
quality for $70-125.

-- 
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