Re: best way to get a //c monitor cable?

[Kevin <followthelink@bottomofpost.com>]

My //c came without a cable (which is what started this whole thread).
Once I realised it was only rca cable I need, I dug thru some old
stuff and found a black rca cable that came with an Atari 800xl 20 yrs
ago.  The cable does feature a tiny black box on one side.  Inside the
box is a little round stone the wire wraps around and proceeds out the
rca jack.   The stone apparently helps cuts down on interference.
The picture on my //c green screen monitor is perfect.  I havent tried
it with a color monitor yet.






kevin


On 29 Aug 2004 06:56:30 -0700, julian814@hotmail.com (Ralph Glatt)
wrote:

>mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote in message news:<20040828123205.23168.00004515@mb-m07.aol.com>...
>> Ed Eastman wrote:
>> 
>> >And yes, a shielded cable works far better than an unsheilded 
>> >one.  Go to your local electronic place and pick up an shielded RCA 
>> >Video cable for best results.
>> 
>> What am I missing here?
>> 
>> Virtually all RCA cables are coaxial (shielded) cables.  The ones
>> intended for video use usually have a lower dielectric constant
>> insulation between the center wire and the shield, but otherwise
>> there is little difference.  There is no place to connect a shield
>> except to the coax braid (shield) anyway.
>> 
>> A shorter cable will work better than an unnecessarily long
>> one, just because the extra capacitance lowers the bandwidth
>> of the video signal.
>
>Well, here's my story. 
>
>I bought a used //c at a garage sale, and it had this skinny little
>cable that looked like it came with the computer originally. When I
>hooked it up, the screen was all swimmy and wavy. Went down to Radio
>Shack, specifically bought a shielded cable, and when I tried it, the
>waviness went away. I'm guessing that the thinner cables are more
>susceptible to inteference than a thicker, shielded cable.
>
>
>Ralph Glatt




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