[Coco] Y2k bug

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Mon Mar 6 19:54:19 EST 2006


On Monday 06 March 2006 19:37, John Donaldson wrote:
>Gene,
>   Don't forget the COCO to SVIDEO converter. Many newer TV's and
>monitors have
>a SVIDEO input.

url for that adaptor please?  It may well be exactly what Chester needs.

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

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