[Coco] 1702 monitor

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 19 May 2018 08:48:21 Wayne Campbell wrote:

> Where did the notion of commodore being the enemy come from? I never
> heard of such a thing.

I think this stems from the days when all the amiga fans, me included, 
were expecting a newer, much faster amiga base on the powerpc chips of 
the day, but the two guys that owned Commode Door at the time, instead 
went to the Bahama's for a "board" meeting, and took the money with 
them.  And never came back. So those two guys will forever be wearing a 
target T-shirt. But that was what, 20 years ago?

I might also add that anybody in the accounts payable listings was SOL, 
as was William Hawes, the fellow that wrote ARRex for the amiga, who 
never saw a dime for writing it, nor from the publishers as copyright 
payments. That was as close to a universal scripting language as has 
ever existed anywhere, capable of doing things not even todays bash can 
do. I even wrote some stuff, with Jim Hines at the tv station, that we 
sold a few copies of. Home automation stuff. Amigados did not have a 
cron, so Jim and I wrote that and gave it away.

> On Sat, May 19, 2018, 4:24 AM Neil Cherry <ncherry at linuxha.com> wrote:
> > On 05/19/2018 02:49 AM, RETRO Innovations wrote:
> > > On 5/18/2018 1:03 PM, Mike Delyea wrote:
> > >> Jim, did you hack a regular composite video cable into 2 outputs?
> > >
> > > Hmm, no.  I jsut used a Y-connector to connect video to both
> > > chroma and
> >
> > luma on back.
> >
> > >> Is the
> > >> image any better than the plain composite connectors at the
> > >> front?
> > >
> > > It is not, but the 1701/1702 was one of the sharpest monitors of
> > > the
> >
> > time period (one
> >
> > > wonders how that happened, since Commodore was not know for
> > > quality.  In
> >
> > this case, CBM
> >
> > > did not make monitors and perhaps they could not dictate Thompson
> > > or
> >
> > whoever built the
> >
> > > monitor's design)
> >
> > Correct, Commodore didn't actual make the monitor. It's just a
> > rebranded monitor.
> >
> > > I know it is heresy to have a CBM monitor alongside a TANDY or
> > > other
> >
> > system, but they
> >
> > > really are awesome monitors.  The boxy shape allows on to stack
> > > them
> >
> > easily and put stuff
> >
> > > on top (temporarily, of course).  The built-in 2 way video switch
> > > is a
> >
> > nice touch as well.
> >
> > As you've noted, the Commodore monitors were quite popular at the
> > time. I have one I used with my Ataris & CoCos. So while it is the
> > 'enemy' it's correct for the time period.
> >
> > PS, Atari didn't make a monitor (that I know of) during the A8
> > period.
> >
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