Re: More dumb L128 Ques: Color Monitor?

[romank@glas.apc.org (Roman Kuznetsow)]

Cyrus Roton <croton@ridgecrest.ca.us> wrote:


>On 21 May 1995, Ernest Alan Tufft wrote:

>> My Laser 128 has an old Sentrek monochrome monitor, but I notice that the
>> computer has a mono-color switch.
>> 
>> If I buy a used color monitor, can I throw this switch and have something
>> that resembles my Mac when I run appleworks?  I wouldn't mind have black
>> letters on a multi-color background, and ofcourse the ability to display
>> color pictures.
>> 
>Yes, you can use a composit color monitor. No, it will not look like a 
>Mac.  The only time you will get color is in the GRAPHICS modes.

And, even better, yo can hook up any *cheap* CGA or EGA monitor from
old PC, without any modification, just by using proper custom cable.
You will get great picture, much better than on composite TV. Laser
provides all necessary signals (TTL IRGB/HSYNC/VSYNC) on its Video
Expansion  connector, near to the composite output.  Beware of 12V
voltage on one of this connector pins, connecting it by mistake
certainly will blow monitor input.

BTW, I have seen old Laser 128, not EX/EX2 , which can turn turn on
_color_  border even in text  mode by writing high nibble in $C023
adr. But my EX cannot do it.

romank@glas.apc.org

Roman Kuznetsow
Moscow, Russia