Bell & Howell Apple II update

Yeah, John, the BNC is definitely the connector of choice for the application. However, since there was in 1978, no specific market for microcomputer monitors, people used what they could buy, and, at the time, that meant, largely, closed-circuit TV (e.g. security system) monitors, which, for the most part, at the time, used the PL/SO 259 and not the BNC. I don't know why this was the case, but it was. If you take a look at the old magazines e.g. BYTE, Kilobaud, etc, targeted at the microcomputer market, you'll see plenty of monitors with SO-259's on the back, and very few with BNC's. They might have been available on video production studio equipment, but that stuff was VERY expensive, into six figures, anyway, back then, and most microcomputer stores didn't want to tie up that kind of money in inventory that nobody could afford anyway. Perhaps you could take time to read the entire post, rather than concluding it says what you want it to say, John. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Allain" <allain(a)panix.com> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 1:01 PM Subject: Re: Bell & Howell Apple II update