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From: ben@grace.UUCP (Ben Henwood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Colour Computer 2 monitors
Summary: You may be able to use a composite video monitor
Message-ID: <146@grace.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 89 01:15:29 GMT
References: <838@auvax.UUCP>
Organization: UW Applied Physics, Seattle
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In article <838@auvax.UUCP>, tech@auvax.UUCP (Richard Loken) writes:
> I have a computer illiterate friend with a colour computer 2 who asked me,
> is it possible to hook some flavour of monitor to a CoCo2?  Hmm?
> 
> From looking at the catalog I would say you cannot (although you can use a
> monitor with the CoCo3) but I would be glad to be contradicted.

I used to own a 64K CoCo.  I bought a product (I don't recall the
manufacturer, but they advertise in Rainbow magazine) that converts
the video output to composite, which is the type of signal that a
video camera usually produces (i.e. it has not been modulated into
the usual TV channel signal).

If you by the adapter board (should be about $35 at most), you can
connect to any composite compatible monitor.  I chose the one
manufactured by Commodore for its Commodore 64.  You could also run
it into a video recorder (VHS or Beta at least) and set the recorder
to CAMERA input, but I'm not sure if you can get the image to
display on the TV -- probably not.


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Ben Henwood
Applied Physics Laboratory (University of Washington)
ben@grace.apl.washington.edu