Re: Monitor with BNC inputs

["Charles J. Sarchet" <csarchet@sinclair.net>]

The other thing that it could be is that the monitor is a monichrome
monitor.  Industrial monichrome monitors have a single BNC also.  Check and
make sure before you spend the money.

Chuck :-)
Lawrence Walker wrote in message <36c5c405.5148120@news.interlog.com>...
>On 7 Feb 1999 10:13:46 -0500, dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave
>Althoff) wrote:
>
>>Randy Shackelford (shack@onyx.southwind.net) wrote:
>>: Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>>: : I eventually intend to replace my dead AppleColor RGB monitor
>>: : and while looking through a video catalog of professional video
>>: : monitors, I saw models with "BNC inputs."  Are these
>>: : compatible with the 15Khz RGB output of the IIGS?  Thanks!
>>
>>: That means there's a separate connector for red, green, and blue. BNC
con-
>>: nectors are the same as you use with thin coax ethernet cables. And I
would
>>: highly doubt that any such monitor would work on a IIgs.
>>
>>Q:  What is the sync frequency of the monitor?  Actually, it is very
>>likely that you might be able to use such a monitor with the IIgs, but you
>>will need to obtain a cable to split the red, green, and blue inputs from
>>the IIgs RGB output and send them to the monitor.
>>
>>This is assuming, of course, that the monitor does indeed have separate
>>red, green, blue (and possibly sync) inputs.  Just because the monitor has
>>BNC connectors does not necessarily mean it has RGBS inputs.
>>
>>It just so happens that virtually all professional composite monitors have
>>BNC connectors; it is equally possible that the BNC connector on the
>>monitor you are looking at is merely a composite video input...you can
>>actually get adapters (on the order of $3 from Radio Shack) to connect
>>your RCA video cable to the BNC input.  Trouble is, that's the same signal
>>that you *didn't* want to use in the first place.
>>
>>Caveat emptor!
>>
>>--Dave Althoff, ][.
>
> I saw a large-screen monitor in good cosmetic condition at a local
>thrift but passed on it since I didn't have a clue as to what it would
>connect to. It had a single BNC socket. What would this connect to ?
>Are adaptors available for a Win or Mac machine ?
>
>ciao larry