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
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"
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,
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 did poke wires into the cassette 5 pin DIN
the background
on Al Bundy's kitchen counter) So, I cut a large
rectangular hole in the front of the monitor case and mounted a full
height 5.25" (Tandon TM100-1) drive and power supply to the right of the
CRT. I added some mu-metal (sp?) around it.
Hmmm.. I am not sure I'd want a
disk drive that close to the monitor
electornics...
probably not one of my best ideas, but it did seem to work reliably!
Whad did you do with the CoCo? tap of the composite
signal inside?
yes
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at
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