Lucky or what

[swift240]

My son works for a building company that renovates the interior of houses.
is boss told him to throw this monitor in the skip, well knowing I haver a lot to do with Commodore gear he gave it to my instead.

Its a Commodore 1701 monitor in very good condition.
I plugged it in and away you go it works perfectly.

Gave it a bit of a clean.
Now I am the proud owner of a 1701.

Mike.

[carvedeye]

lucky you.

[Methuselas]

@Swift240


Lemme know when you're ready for my mailing address, so I can be lucky too.  :-P

[AmigaHeretic]

These have the best composite video display I could ever find.  Used mine for all my old video games systems and things.  I might still have mine at the parents house, but can't remember.  I'll have to check.  Think it was a 1702 over here though maybe?  Looking online doesn't seem to be any difference between the two though.

Nice find!!

[dannyp1]

I got a 1702 at a yard sale a year or so ago for $5.  I thought I did real well but you just beat me.  You are certainly a lucky Son-Of-A-Gun!!  Have fun with your new toy!

Dan

[SamuraiCrow]

If you cut the end off of an S-Video pass cable and attach 2 RCA jacks to the shielded wires inside you can plug them into the separated Luminance and Chromanance jacks on the back of a 1701 monitor you'll have a nice S-Video display.

[arkanoid]

I own a 1701 too. Great monitor. that was a lucky find!

[benJamin]

Wish I had space to plug my 1702 in.  Still makes a good step-ladder, though.  Can't do that with LCDs...   ;-)

[swift240]

I did actually think of S-Video.

I use my Playstation 2 on Video, I was thinking how good it might be using S-Video compared to normal Video.

Having said that I am waiting for another PS2 video lead that had the scart plug on the end so I can use RGB.

But all the same it will be interesting to see how S-Video will look on the 1701.

BTW what is the dif between a 1701 and a 1702?

I know the 1701 is mono sound, is the 1702 stereo?

Mike.