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    From anthonypaulo@gmail.com@3:770/3 to All on Tue May 16 08:02:00 2017
    Hey guys,

    I have an Apple IIgs w/ RGB monitor (A2M6014) on a computer desk with the keyboard in a slide-out drawer. I would like to place my Commodore 64 in a slide-out drawer as well and utilize the same RGB monitor. Why use the same monitor instead of, say, a
    1084-P1? For aesthetic reasons... the Apple RGB monitor looks perfect on the IIgs base, anything else would ruin the aesthetics. Is this possible? I would need an S-Video to DB-15 (not VGA) RGB converter but haven't found one during my google searches.

    Thanks,

    Anthony

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  • From Ross Ridge@3:770/3 to anthonypaulo@gmail.com on Wed May 24 20:43:18 2017
    <anthonypaulo@gmail.com> wrote:
    I have an Apple IIgs w/ RGB monitor (A2M6014) on a computer desk with
    the keyboard in a slide-out drawer. I would like to place my Commodore
    64 in a slide-out drawer as well and utilize the same RGB monitor. Why
    use the same monitor instead of, say, a 1084-P1? For aesthetic
    reasons... the Apple RGB monitor looks perfect on the IIgs base,
    anything else would ruin the aesthetics. Is this possible? I would need
    an S-Video to DB-15 (not VGA) RGB converter but haven't found one during
    my google searches.

    You might get it to work with by connecting an S-Video to VGA converter
    to an VGA to Apple RGB converter. However since most VGA monitors don't support the 15kHz signal the Apple IIgs RGB monitor requires, most S-Video
    to VGA converters are probably going to unhelpfully convert the S-Video
    15kHz signal to something VGA monitors can support.

    .....Ross Ridge

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