15 Nov
2007
15 Nov
'07
5:52 p.m.
On Thursday 15 November 2007 10:40, Mark Meiss wrote:
As part of the process of getting a second C128 system
set up and
running, I recently ordered another Commodore 1084 monitor from an
eBay seller. The one I have is nice and bright and lets me switch
quickly between the composite (40-column) and RGBI (80-column) outputs
of the 128, so I was happy to stumble across another one for a
reasonable price.
It arrived last night, and it's a great little monitor, in even better
shape than the one I already had. To my surprise, though, it's also
completely different. The case is different, the form factor and
positioning of the controls are different -- and, most relevantly,
even the connectors are different. My older one (made in 1989) has a
DB-9 input for RGBI input. The new arrival (made in 1988, if I recall
correctly) has an 8-pin DIN input for RGBI input.
I haven't encountered too many 1084 monitors, but they did the same thing
with the 1802, if I'm remembering right...
*Very* different models, one was made by Magnavox (Philips?) and one by
GoldStar. And of course they tended to have different failure modes, and so
forth.
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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