ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) writes:
Is CM8833 a TTL-input monitor?
It depends -- there were lots of variants of the 8833 with different
input options. I've owned three: a Philips-branded one that has analogue
RGB on a DE9, a Commodore 1084S which has separate DINs for analogue and
TTL RGB, and the Acorn equivalent which has a SCART connector.
The 1084S at least is perfectly happy to accept TTL RGB on its analogue
RGB input, as you suggest; I use mine that way with my BBC Micros
(having made up the cable when I didn't have the right DIN plug for the
TTL input!). They're really nice monitors, aside from the tendency of
the flap covering the controls to fall off and get lost. The 1084S
seemed quite expensive in 1990, but given that it's still in regular use
20 years later, I'm not going to complain. ;-)
What I'd really like is a nice big old broadcast-quality RGB monitor to
use with classic computers and laserdisc/video, but I'm not too hopeful
about one coming up locally (Dundee), and I wouldn't want to ship one...
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