[Coco] Help reviving an old CoCo 2

John Goerzen jgoerzen at complete.org
Mon Nov 24 08:28:00 EST 2014


Bruce W. Calkins <brucewcalkins at ...> writes:

> Do without the box.  If your TV has a 75 ohm coax input get a phono to coax 
> adapter.  If a 300 ohm input you need a 300 to 75 ohm balun and the phono to 
> coax adapter.  On my CoCos, since 1984, I put the adapter on the CoCo end 
> and use 75 ohm coax to the TV.

Thanks, Bruce and everyone that made that suggestion.  I've ordered an RCA
to F adapter from Amazon, and hopefully that solves the problem.  I had
never seen 75 ohm coax with that RCA-type connector and had assumed it must
be some type of proprietary signal.  I guess just an unusual connector.

John




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