25 Apr
2001
25 Apr
'01
7:05 p.m.
Howdy!
The 1984p was made by philips and was sold under a couple of different brands
I believe.
Bill Claussen
elecdata1
Tony Duell wrote:
On what a 8050 drive can work on
Every PET/CBM except the ones with the original ROMs, and the CBM II
series (B128, P500, B600, 700, etc.)
The 8050 is a dual 1/2 megabyte (per floppy) drive using quad density
(96tpi) single sided disks (not to be confused with high density, I have
Are you sure it's 96tpi? I've read somewhere that the 8050 is actually
one of the rare 100tpi drives, although I can't be certain. It would be
nice to have a definite statement on this....
Unfortunaltely it cannot read 1541 or
2040/4040/2031 disks. But I have
heard you can read a half of a 8250 disk with it (8250 is a dual sided
quad density drive)
I believe that is correct....
23 pin d-sub mini to DIN is a 1084 monitor (DIN)
to Amiga (23 pin d-sub
mini) cable. For that monitor to an 8-bit it would have been DIN to DIN
(not sure of the monitor configuration though). Commodore for a short
time used these nasty DIN connectors on their 1084 monitors which were
non standard... (probably got a deal on DIN jacks, eh?)
I belive Magnavox did release some of thier branded monitors with that
connetor too... :/
From looking at the schematics of some versions of
the 1084, I would
swear it's a Philips design :-). And of course Philips ==
Magnavox. So
it's not suprising that Philips used those infernal DIN connectors at one
point as well.
Still, they're better than SCART connectors (now there's a connector the
designer of which should be LARTed...).
I am not sure what connector should be used for RGB video. 3, 4, or 5
BNCs (depending on how you handle syncs) is the proper way to do it, but
it's inconvenient to connect, and bulky. All the other common video
connectors (SCART, D-connectors, DINs, etc) are not proper video
connectors at all...
-tony