[Coco] Coco to "plain old monitor"

[N8WQ]

Hi Jeff and Bill,
In my CoCo 3 tower I soldered directly to the CoCo RGB output and 
soldered the other ends of the wires to a female RGB connector in my 
case. It works great.

Alan Jones

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Jeff Teunissen wrote:
> Robert Gault wrote:
>   
>> Bill wrote:
>>     
>>> My oldest PC is hooked to an AOC 4V Spectrum monitor. It's ranges are from
>>> 800x600 to 1024x768, 32bit color. It is not a composite monitor, sadly to
>>> say. I guess it won't work, huh?
>>>
>>>       
>> Based on what I see here
>> http://www.monitorworld.com/Monitors/aoc/spectrum4v4vira.html
>> http://www.softhut.com/aoc14.html
>> your monitor should work with a Coco3 via the RGB output. You will need 
>> to make your own cable and it may be hard to find a connector for the 
>> Coco end.
>>     
>
> It's astoundingly easy to find a connector for the CoCo end of a graphics
> cable: PC serial connectors, of the sort that connect the ribbon cable to the
> PC's motherboard.
>
> Alternately, one might solder lines to the opposite side of the CoCo's RGB
> output connector and fabricate a second monitor port using a DE9 or DE15HD
> ("VGA") connector.
>
>
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