No idea why they included a monochrome out but I am glad they did. Not long after getting my A500 we moved house which meant as a teenager I got my own room (yay) but basically lost access to the family TV (boo) and the only monitor I had was an old crappy monochrome one which I ended up using for over a year on my A500. It was either use a monochrome or not use the A500. Later own, I bought a refurbished 1084S monitor but found future use for the monochrome when I bought an A2000 which I ran a BBS on and the monochrome monitor was used on that.
None of my friends could work out how I managed to play Wings on a monochrome monitor since they said it was impossible to tell the different between the colour of the planes. It was a strange setup since I also had an old stereo which I hooked up to the A500 (old school HMV stereo) so had great sound and no colour picture
