I need a weird RCA cable.

Factual Questions
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I just can’t pray the geek away. After several years in a lonely box (not me, the computer), I’ve decided to get my old Commodore 64 up and running again. But! I’ve lost a cable somewhere over the years. I have the actual C64 monitor, and it looks like it has 3 inputs in the back - 2 audio, 1 video, but then it feeds into a single input which connects in the back of the CPU. The last time my C64 was running, I was about 10, and my dad had hooked it up, so I can’t remember what the cable looked like. Nobody I’ve asked seems to know what I need. I THINK I need a triple RCA to a single mini, am I wrong? Where can i find such a beast? Radio Schlock was of no help (the know-it-all male workers there also seemed skeptical of my claim that I knew how to use a computer. :rolleyes: )

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I think I remember the cable from my old C64 days, but I got rid of mine many years ago. However, there are a fair number of C64 fans out there, so I suspect you can find one.

This page:

http://sta.c64.org/cbmmon.html

Shows what they say is a standard commodore monitor cable for both the C64 and C128. It shows a 4 RCA to DIN cable. (Click on the link “construction page” to see the detail of the cable.)

Here is an ebay auction showing a 3 RCA to DIN cable:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3543&item=8130776935&rd=1

One of those should probably work. Good luck!

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Or you could buy one of these and just hook it to your TV. (Might come in handy if your monitor dies on you and you don’t want to plunk down the change for a new one.)