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From: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Asking for information on Diamond Scan monitors
Message-ID: <259@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 88 21:04:33 GMT
References: <9133@ut-emx.UUCP> <2901@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Reply-To: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk)
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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In article <2901@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) writes:
>I have to unplug the cable to my Amiga in order to reboot.  Probably
>I didn't make the cable quite right.  Sawing off the end of an
>rs232 connector and soldering all those tiny little wires was
>a pain.  There must be a better way ...
>
>		Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu

I don't think this has anything to do with the quality of your cable, but
rather a load factor on one of the sync outputs of the Amiga;  I seem to
remember reading that one of these "outputs" is actually both an input AND
an output, for genlock use, and the hardware checks to see if the line is
being asserted (i.e., is an input) during power-up.  The solution to the
problem is to buffer the line in question via a simple TTL-type chip or
transistor, but I don't have the details; can someone else out there help?


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