Date   : Fri, 08 May 1987 15:22:00 EDT
From   : <RMALOUF%SBCCMAIL.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu> (Rob Malouf)
Subject: Osborne Screen

> Could someone please tell me if and/or how to change the osborne to
> display more than 40 columns when using an external monitor.

Even with an upgrade (at least the OCC factory upgrade), the Osborne external
monitor attached to the "MONITOR" port will not display 80/132 columns without
an extra doo-dad.  Only the composite RCA jack outputs 80/132 column video.

The adaptor, which I received from OCC with my newly upgraded tan case Osborne,
seems to convert the composite output to whatever the Osborne monitor uses and
adds the power lines.

BTW, doe anybody know why removing the little dummy plug from the "MONITOR"
jack with the power on fries its innards?  The manual warns about that, and
once I accidentally did it, and sure enough, the video subsystem died.  How
come?


                                        Rob Malouf
                                        Marine Sciences Research Center
                                        State University of New York
                                        Stony Brook, NY  11794-5000
                                        RMALOUF@SBCCMAIL.BITNET