[Coco] Y2k bug

[John Donaldson]

Gene,
   Don't forget the COCO to SVIDEO converter. Many newer TV's and 
monitors have
a SVIDEO input.

John Donaldson


Gene Heskett wrote:

>On Monday 06 March 2006 09:39, Chester A Patterson wrote:
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>>Roy's adapter? Please elaborate!
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>Roy Justis is making an adaptor that lets us use svga monitors by 
>doubling everything, and it works fairly well.
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>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?
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>>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
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>>On Sunday 05 March 2006 13:04, Chester Patterson wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>>>Thanks.
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