LENOIL@MIT-XX.ARPA (12/13/83)
From: Robert S. Lenoil <LENOIL@MIT-XX.ARPA> The Commodore monitor will give you much better picture quality than a standard television. Also, current 64's have an 8-pin video connector, providing seperate chrominence and luminence information. Standard monitors can't take advantage of this, but the Commodore monitors have a special 3-plug connector in the back, explicitly for connecting to a 64. Unfortunately, last I've heard, Commodore isn't shipping the 3-plug cables with the monitors, because people with older 64's wouldn't be able to hook them up (mass stupidity, I know). When I last spoke to them, they said that eventually they would ship 3-plug cables with new monitors. The jist of all this is that if you get a Commodore monitor and a 3-plug video cable (assuming your 64 has an 8-pin connector), you will get VASTLY superior video than anything possible with a color TV, or even another monitor. Robert Lenoil (LENOIL@MIT-XX.ARPA) -------
kurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth) (12/19/83)
Even older c64's with the 5-pin plug can use the three-wire system with
separated chrominance and luminance (I should know, I have one). I believe
that most of the wires on that 8-wire plug are not connected, that there are
no additional signals brought out. That means they chose an 8-pin plug for
some other reason.
There is a lot of c64 interest on the ARPAnet now. I notice that the c64
discussion on ARPA seems to go on in INFO-MICRO. If the ARPA people don't
know, there is a net.micro.cbm as well as net.micro and if they wish, they
can send commodore related material directly to net.micro.cbm. (Just a
thought, not a flame)
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Kurt Guntheroth
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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