On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Tony Duell wrote:
Sinec there s composite output on one of hte pins
of hte DIN socket (and
a techncial manual giving the pinout was availagble i nthe Radio Shack
shops over here -- the service manual for the monitor had to be ordered
though), I wonder why you voided the wwrranty just for that.
Because I had some Glyptol (tamper-evident paint), to re-instate the
I got quite good at peelign the lable over the screw off CoCos
non-destructively. I then would stick it on a piece of rub-down-lettering
backing paper and put it back o nthe case if I ever needed to return the
machine. Actually, I nver did. IO probably still ahve the labels somewhere...
warranty :-) Later, in order to get some of the free
"upgrades" (mostly
related to CPU/EI cabling), I repainted the screw. So long as we
provided him with schematics of the mods, the local RS "tech" was willing
to look at the paint on the screw and declare the machine to have "never
been tampered with", in spite of after market numeric pad, add-in board
for reverse video, lower case, a few additional keys, etc. "Since the
screw was painted, any mods must have been done "boat in a bottle" style,
which is not prohibited by twe warranty"
:-) To be fair, most techs (as opposed to jobsworths and salesdroids)
would regard you as clueful if you could do such mods, and would
therefore assume that the fualt was not due to you wreckign the machine.
Why not
solder the wires to a 5 pin DIN plug and stick it in the right hole?
I wanted to see what I was connecting to, didn't have the manual yet,
You mananged to find the composite output, and didn't trace it to the DIN
socket?
I didn't have any 5-pin DINs, the local
electronics surplus "Electronics
Etc" was out of them!, and by that time, I was committed, and I knew that
I wanted UHF or RCA for the connector.
I guess DIN plugs are much more commopnly used over here. Some of the
more obscure ones are hard to find , but the 5 pin type A is very common...
I did poke wires into the cassette 5 pin DIN
You mean you didn't buy the ofifical cable (the one that IBM wanted you
to buy for hte 5150)? I must have a fair number of those around.
-tony