I have an old COCO II somewhere but I don't have a television. What
are you guys who have similar old systems doing for a display? Is there
Tony said:
I normally pick of the compostie signal before the RF
modulator (if there
isn't a composite video ouptu socket anyway, there isn't on the CoCo II,
there is on the 3) and feed it to a composite-input CRT-based monitor.
I've been away from my tools too long (don't ask) and I wasn't thinking of
doing any surgery on the COCO since it's pristine. The whole deal is I
don't have a TV, don't have a need for it or really any room for one, but I
do have plenty of monitors. If I can't get a TV card to work or anything
else becomes an issue I'll ask again, when I actually have everything in
front of me so I can ask quasi intelligently instead of based on what I
remember from the 1980s sometime which was when I bought it and put it back
in the box after not using it much.
> a device to convert the TV out from those
computers to D-Sub or dare to
at least over here, most moder n TVs (inlducing LCD
and plasma ones) have
analogue TV tuner/demodulation circuitry (as well as digital) which seems
ot work with old home compoters. And composite (and manye analogue RGB)
inputs on RCA phono or SCART socketxs.
Yeah but I don't have a TV!
> dream, DVI? What do you call such a conv erter?
Thanks.
I beleive composite to HDMI converters esixt (may work
with DVI too, I
can't see why they'd need the decryption key from the TV set). Over here
they are often called 'SCART to HDMI converters', since the composite
input is on a SCART socket. Of course sucvh things only work if oyu have
a compostie video output from your home computer, not just the an RF
output.
I think somebody said the COCO doesn't have composite output.
> Not cheap, though (getting on for $100). an old
CRT monitor is cheaper
> and probalbly more repairable if you have the space for it.
Hmmm, will any old CRT monitor work? I might be pursuaded to see if I can
scrounge one of those even though finding a home for it would be a problem.
Was hoping to avoid the CRT death rays though since I did enough of that
for decades. The newer flat screens seem much healthier.
Thank you and everyone. I guess we can let this thread die for now.