Bell & Howell Apple II update

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
Date: Wed Jan 23 16:04:26 2002

 What was the original game plug on the A-IIs ? On my A-II+ I have a socket
cabled off the game I/O chip that is 6 bladed (like 3 stacked AC sockets).
 I've never seen the original A-II Joys and have an analogue adapter to use
Atari style Joys.

Lawrence

> On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:
> > The monitor connectors are two ethernet-looking BNC plugs (WTF!?)
> > Can anyone tell me what's going on with these?
>
> There're a lot of different connectors that get used for composite
> monitors. For school use, they want one that can withstand some abuse,
> and will stay on. (When somebody trips over the cord, it should be strong
> enough to pull the entire machine off of the table.)
>
> When I taught a class in Evans 10 (UCBerkeley folk'll know the room), in
> the wall there was a connector for the overhead video monitors. It was
> an unusual connector, with a hollow cylindrical plug a few inches long,
> with a pin in the center. I had to check out a cable each time to use it,
> until Electronics Etc (R.I.P.) came up with an adapter of that plug to
> BNC.
> OB_CC: My TRS-80 model 1 was quite happy sending signal to half a dozen
> giant overhead monitors.
>
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
>



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