Mastodawn

Apple IIe + RGB card + cable + RGB TTL adapter + CGA monitor = mostly works (controls are completely stuck, image is wobbly). So this Samsung CK4644 CGA monitor needs a bit of love (and cleaning) but otherwise is doing okay.

By the way, if this monitor looks familiar I'll be posting additional pics of it and of a Tandy CM-5 25-1043 (the later model of the CM-5). The cases seem to me to have been made from the same injection mold.

Behind it is a Gateway VGA monitor connected to the same Apple IIe via an a2Vidga card. Colors are different and behavior is not identical but close.

#appleII #retroComputing #CGA #CRT

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Bits&Terminal Jeff Mar 14

Short term plan is to clean it better, then in a few days open the monitor and use contact cleaner on all the potentiometers so they will be able to start moving again.

The wobbly/shaky image is probably due to dying caps, hopefully not too many. While I'm cleaning the pots, I'll try to find all capacitors that look suspect and start ordering parts.

I'm just happy the tube is working - image is much sharper than the Tandy CM-5 25-1023 I used to have.

Let's see if I can fix the issues and not break anything.

#retroComputing #CRT