[Coco] Magnavox Color Monitor 40

[Mike 0rtloff]

Hmm, things =have= changed since I last accessed the list from 
FIDO... spam wasn't allowed Back Then ;)

My questions weren't addressed by this post. Is the Goldstar monitor 
composite input? Is the max resolution higher, the same or less than 
a Magnavox Color Monitor 40? Is the audio built-in, does it 
support  CoCo resolutions better than a Magnavox Color Monitor 40? Is 
it made more recently than 1985 (when the Color Monitor 40 was popular)

All we =do= learn is you =require= PayPal. :^/

Mine was a local deal, the shipping alone made buying it (or any 
other CRT) online prohibitively expensive for a typical "as-is" 
online used item purchase. I  went ahead & bought it because the 
seller offered me a money-back guarantee if it didn't meet my needs.

Which it does indeed. Though 80-column text is a barely legible, 40 
column & 640 x 192 graphics look fine on it. Kinda neat having the 
built-in audio too, one less wall-wart on my squid. It will do nicely 
until Mr Justus starts shipping his adapters again, at which point 
this monitor becomes an excellent general-purpose color composite 
monitor (for my kids' Nintendo stable for example)

Thanx anyway listers, I originally posted in the hopes one of us was 
old enuff to recall (but young enuff not to have forgotten ;) just 
=which= monitors sold in '87 worked well with the CoCo3. Still cool 
to be able to learn new stuff even now :)

Peace!

=M0=


>I have a Goldstar RGBi monitor if anyone wants to send me a offer 
>for it. It's still brand new in a box.
>
>Paypal only please.
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike 0rtloff" <underserf at comcast.net>
>To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:39 AM
>Subject: [Coco] Magnavox Color Monitor 40
>
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>>[my bad, I thought we were s'posed to post images, sorry]
>>
>>Has anyone used color composite monitors such as the Magnavox Color 
>>Monitor 40  with a CoCo3? With the composite input, I figure it 
>>ought to be no worse than my Sanyo studio monitor TV, maybe better. 
>>I got a potentially righteous deal on one.
>>
>>Any thoughts?
>>
>>Worst case, it looks to be a decent display for an NES  ;)
>>
>>Ah, a question comes to mind. Back about '91, I built a little 
>>two-transistor circuit to pick off , amplify & buffer the composite 
>>signal going into the CoCo2 onboard modulator. I think the circuit 
>>was in a Rainbow issue, not sure which.
>>
>>Anybody recall which issue it was in (mebbe the Seattle Public 
>>Library has it 'fiched) or perhaps have the schematic as a GIF somewheres?
>>
>>TIA!
>>
>>=M0=
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