[Coco] Y2k bug

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 06 March 2006 09:39, Chester A Patterson wrote:
>Roy's adapter? Please elaborate!

Roy Justis is making an adaptor that lets us use svga monitors by 
doubling everything, and it works fairly well.

Speak up Roy, sound like another potential customer.  There are others 
here also working on this from other but similar angles, perhaps we can 
get them to speak up also?

>Many thanks.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gene Heskett [mailto:gene.heskett at verizon.net]
>Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 9:35 PM
>To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
>Subject: Re: [Coco] Y2k bug
>
>On Sunday 05 March 2006 13:04, Chester Patterson wrote:
>>Well the 12-13 year old rig did fire up. Had to reformat the ST-225
>> though. Cleaned up the TEAC floppies and two out of three run no
>> errors. Last night, 2am, the Magnavox 8CM515 made a couple of spark
>> noises and died. Any service manuals out there? Current model
>> subsititutes? Remember, I live in
>>Costa Rica, and stuff can be mighty hard to come by! Not as bad as
>> Nepal perhaps.
>
>There are no more monitors in the 8CM1515/1CM135/Commie 108X category
>being made.  There are no more tube monitors beong made except for
> some big chinese knockoffs, I'm looking at a 19" right now.  A used
> one from the pawn shop maybe, or an svga monitor and Roy's adaptor
> would be another suggestion.  I'm using that solution on my coco3
> myself.
>
>>Thanks.

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