# I need a weird RCA cable. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 14, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-weird-rca-cable/264365 "2004-09-14T03:56:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-weird-rca-cable/264365/1 "2004-09-14T03:56:33Z")
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: ) ---
**Author:** ![JimOfAllTrades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@JimOfAllTrades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimOfAllTrades)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-weird-rca-cable/264365/2 "2004-09-14T04:08:20Z")
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](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](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3543&item=8130776935&rd=1) One of those should probably work. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-weird-rca-cable/264365/3 "2004-09-14T04:21:46Z")
Or you could buy [one of these](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3543&item=8130696276&rd=1) 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.)