20 Jun
1998
20 Jun
'98
9:36 p.m.
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
A pile of service manuals, proper tools, an education (or a brain
transplant from you or Alison), and more free time is what I need. I hate
having all these great old machines and no clue about how to fix them if
anything went wrong. :/
Doug Spence
ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/
For a kludge do what I did when I had to get composite
video out of a
Model 1 without the right cable and without a soldering iron.
Get a 5 pin Din to 4 RCA phono connector cable. Easy to get from (say)
Radio Shack.
Use the pin 4 plug as composite out. Short the pin 5 plug by wrapping
wire around the pin and outer casing (this links ground, on pin 5 ,to the
screen of all the cables, and to pin 2 on the DIN plug, which is not
connected in the Model 1). Make sure the pin 1 plug doesn't short out -
it's connected to the +5V line in the computer.
This works beautifully, Tony! The letters are a bit unclear in 64 columns
on my C=1802 but I suspect that would still be the case even if I had a
proper video cable. (That CHR$(23) trick for fat letters is pretty cool.)
Maybe somebody
should take my collection away from me before I blow
something up. ;)
I think a better solution would be for someone to donate a pile of
service manuals to you. Not my pile though :-)