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

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

Hans Otten (nobody@yahoo.com) writes:
> Kevin <followthelink@bottomofpost.com> wrote:
> 
>>yes I fig that out .. what an idiot I can be!!!! I was looking at the
>>rgb connector and assumed that was for the monitor.   If I want color
>>output from this thing do I need to use the rgb out port?  Can I plug
>>my Amiga 1084s into the //c (it features both composite color and
>>analog RGB color) I have this //c but the tiny little green screen
>>sort of sucks, I rem a friend way way back in the 80's had his IIe
>>plugged into an amdek mon, I really want to see those colors!
>>
> The IIc does not present standard RGB at its output, so no, you cant use the rgb
> monitor.  Eiither you need  a special IIc color monitor or you need an adapter
> that plugs into the IIc connector and has both a composite color and a color rf
> output. 
> Hans, http://www.hansotten.com

But while there seems to have been variants of that Commodore monitor,
at least some have a composite input.  Indeed the poster says his does.
So it's real easy to see color by connecting it to the Apple with the
same simple cable that's used to connect the Apple to the monochrome
monitor.

   Michael