commodore stuff...

From: bill claussen <elecdata_at_kcinter.net>
Date: Wed Apr 25 18:05:00 2001

Howdy!

The 1984p was made by philips and was sold under a couple of different brands
I believe.

Bill Claussen
elecdata1

Tony Duell wrote:

> >
> >
> >
> > On what a 8050 drive can work on
> >
> > Every PET/CBM except the ones with the original ROMs, and the CBM II
> > series (B128, P500, B600, 700, etc.)
> >
> > The 8050 is a dual 1/2 megabyte (per floppy) drive using quad density
> > (96tpi) single sided disks (not to be confused with high density, I have
>
> Are you sure it's 96tpi? I've read somewhere that the 8050 is actually
> one of the rare 100tpi drives, although I can't be certain. It would be
> nice to have a definite statement on this....
>
> > Unfortunaltely it cannot read 1541 or 2040/4040/2031 disks. But I have
> > heard you can read a half of a 8250 disk with it (8250 is a dual sided
> > quad density drive)
>
> I believe that is correct....
>
> > 23 pin d-sub mini to DIN is a 1084 monitor (DIN) to Amiga (23 pin d-sub
> > mini) cable. For that monitor to an 8-bit it would have been DIN to DIN
> > (not sure of the monitor configuration though). Commodore for a short
> > time used these nasty DIN connectors on their 1084 monitors which were
> > non standard... (probably got a deal on DIN jacks, eh?)
> >
> > I belive Magnavox did release some of thier branded monitors with that
> > connetor too... :/
>
> >From looking at the schematics of some versions of the 1084, I would
> swear it's a Philips design :-). And of course Philips == Magnavox. So
> it's not suprising that Philips used those infernal DIN connectors at one
> point as well.
>
> Still, they're better than SCART connectors (now there's a connector the
> designer of which should be LARTed...).
>
> I am not sure what connector should be used for RGB video. 3, 4, or 5
> BNCs (depending on how you handle syncs) is the proper way to do it, but
> it's inconvenient to connect, and bulky. All the other common video
> connectors (SCART, D-connectors, DINs, etc) are not proper video
> connectors at all...
>
> -tony
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