Re: What is with these silly monitors

[spierings <omgang@internex.net.au>]

> > I got my hands on two Apple IIe Color Composite monitors. I was hoping
> > that the RCA jack at the back would take a standard video signal. All is
> > fine except that everything is B&W. I have tried from video player and
> > AV Mac computer and I get the same result. Did the IIe have some wired
> > color signal. I was thinking if I could get the specifications for this
> > signal I could program a converter that would change the IIe signal to a
> > standard color video signal. Any ideas? Anybody?
>
> Sounds familiar. I picked up a IIe Color monitor a few years back and
> tried it out with a VCR. Since the picture came up B&W (maybe a bit
> pastel actually) I assumed the color was broken - I had a couple of
> identical Commodore 64-class monitors and all except one had a color
> picture so it's not a rare occurence with older monitors.

Well I'm going to get my screwdrivers out and see if I can see if there are
any obvious problems. The monitors are 1990 so they are not that old. I've
never seen a color tv lose its color. It seems strange to me that it could
happen.

> Having no IIe I can't test it out from that end :-(

This is my problem too. If I had a IIe I would at least know if the monitors
are broken in some way.

Bye,

Andre