ftovar #1 Posted May 4, 2003 Does anybody have this computer? I bought one from E-bayer in Australia 2 years ago and it works but I never had a manual for it and no monitor. The only company that I know may have the manual is B&C but as of yet they are too busy and have too much unorganized inventory to find a copy. I need to know the type of monitor it works with. The SC1224 does not fit the connection. I have seen the Atari PCM124 which is the same as the SM124 but need to be sure that this is the monitor that works with the Atari PC-3. Can anybody else help? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Mitch #2 Posted May 4, 2003 Hmm, I thought it just used a standard VGA monitor. What kind of connector does it have? Mitch Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Curt Vendel #3 Posted May 6, 2003 Hmm, I thought it just used a standard VGA monitor. What kind of connector does it have? Mitch Depends Mitch... The built in video on the PC-3 is CGE/EGA.... Some had a dual EGA/VGA card installed, if the video port likes like a female 9pin port, then its a cga/ega port... His best bet is to simply pick up a Trident VGA card for like $5 and install it, then he can use a standard VGA monitor on it. Curt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Mitch #4 Posted May 6, 2003 Depends Mitch... The built in video on the PC-3 is CGE/EGA.... Some had a dual EGA/VGA card installed, if the video port likes like a female 9pin port, then its a cga/ega port... Curt That's what I figured. And also why I asked what connector it had. Mitch Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
A2600 #5 Posted May 7, 2003 Trident VGA card for like $5 and install it, then he can use a standard VGA monitor on it. Curt Where can you get one? E-Bay and such places? B&C? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ftovar #6 Posted May 11, 2003 Thanks to all who replied. I was able to get the original PCM 124 monitor for it from Best-Electronics. It turns out that all this time that I had Best's catalog and never checked it thorughly. Brad had only two left. The monitor automatically adjusts to the settings of the monitor switch you select on the back of the PC. I don't have the manual for the PC-3 and as I stated before, B&C could not help me with too much inventory to locate the manual. Upon boot up the display showed "Smart EGA" detected and 640K ram good. Then I got a keyboard error. Press F1. The monitor does use the DB9 pin and the Keyboard uses the 5 pin BIG round connection not the little 5 pin din that modern PC's use today. I have the keyboard for it but I think it is broken due to some dumb cats not knowing any better. You can use your imagination, I'm just going to use this for my Portfolio since my PC does not have any ISA slots for the PC card drive. Thanks again Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Mitch #7 Posted May 11, 2003 Hey cool! Sounds like it has standard EGA video then. Hope you get all working. Mitch Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ftovar #8 Posted May 30, 2003 Well, I got my Atari PC keyboard from Best Electronics and my Atari PC-3 boots up fine. It had to be an XT keyboard and not an AT one. I got a scanned manual from a cool guy over at Atari.Org. It's not Y2K compliant though. It does hav GEM on the hard drive so I have to figure out how to get that working. It has MS DOS 3.21 and GW Basic 3.22. It's time to tinker around. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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