[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] coco 3 on monitor Tandy MC-5

[Bruce Calkins]

To be sure, or avoid misunderstanding.  I have salvaged the 10 pin IDC
connectors from Pee-Cee serial ports.  I hand wired a CoCo 1 keyboard from a
quality terminal's, back when "chicklets" were the "only" keyboards
available.  I routinely disassemble 34 pin IDC and card edge connectors for
my disk drive projects.  I won't claim professional abilities in the
hardware department, but, I can hold my own with reasonable documation.  I
figure the problem I had was one of two things 1; A bad monitor,(it works
under the composite feed in.) or 2; I needed more or better information.  (I
have several pages on the Commodore monitors.)  Once I get back to working
fulltime I will be sending a big list to Cloud-9, or several small ones.  It
is the best bang for the buck for this CoCoNut.

Bruce W.
CoCoNut since January 1983.


> Bruce
>
> Looking at the cable assemblies, I would say that the main cable is
> a molded one that has one end chopped off and another connector
> added on. The 10 pin IDC connector and ribbon cable assembly is
> not easy if you do not have the IDC press tools. They are not cheap
> either.
>
> In all not to terribly high a price considering that he is not
> manufacturing ten thousand a month of these items. Considering
> that this is a small run product and he has to at least recover any
> tooling costs to make the cables. Then there is storage and order
> processing.
>
> Figure this to buy the materials and any tools and make it yourself
> will spend almost that much. That is not including your own time.
> How much is that worth? Better yet the aggrevation if you are not
> mechanically inclined??? How many swear words and cut hands?
> Then there is the few that pick up the soldering iron from the wrong
> end! Ouch!!!!
>
>
> james
>
>
> On 15 Dec 2003 at 16:09, Bruce Calkins wrote:
>
> > Well, having tried to make one and having it not work, I'm thinking
> > about it.  It would have been cheaper than the time and money I've
> > wasted so far.
> >
> > > Me also I find that ridiculous...
> >
> > > > Holy granola, they want $40 for connecting the CoCo III to a
> > > > Commodore 1084 monitor?
> >
> > > > > You can also purchase a cable from Cloud-9:
> > > > > <http://www.cloud9tech.com/Hardware/Video%20Cables.html>


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