[Coco] CM-8 monitor detection pin

[Arthur Flexser]

Out of curiosity, what would be the advantage of the CoCo 3's "knowing"
whether a monitor was hooked up to it or not?  I suppose one could have
one's software go to the RGB palette if an RGB monitor was detected.  But
since users could not be depended upon to have the detection line enabled,
it just seems like that would create incompatibilities.  (Under OS-9, I
suppose you could have this be a driver option, but it seems like more
trouble than it is worth.)

Art

Art

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:39 PM, John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
wrote:

> I was thinking that the Roy Justus adapter used that for...something...?
>
> Roy, are you here?  Maybe that was just an idea for something you
> shared with me?
>
> John
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:03:07AM -0500, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
> > It must be the pin-10. The service manual says it's disconnected but in
> > fact it is connected.
> >
> >
> > Luis Felipe Antoniosi
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I seem to recall that the CoCo 3 has a pin in the monitor connector
> that
> > > could be read to determine if a monitor was hooked up. But, for some
> > > reason, nothing ever used it.
> > >
> > > Is this still a thing? I did some Googling but didn't turn anything up.
> > >
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