A silly guy want to hook up his //c monitor to his Mac mini but failed

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FiO_Dio

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• Feb 14, 2024

• #1

I recently bought apple //c as my collection as well as to use the monitor (that I found it cute) as a terminal display hook up to my Mac mini. I try to connect it with RCA to hami converter but it didn't work somehow. Do you guys have any ideas how can I connect it to Mac mini or any modern pc?

Thank you.

 

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Callan

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• Feb 14, 2024

• #2

I'm not familiar with the Hami convertor, but I'm assuming you''ve tried this process on other composite input monitors and it has worked. If that's the case what are you getting on the iic monitor? It might be that you just need to adjust thr horizontal sync or one of the other adjustments.

 

stepleton

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• Feb 14, 2024

• #3

I suspect "Hami" is HDMI. An RCA to HDMI converter is for taking video from the Apple II and putting it onto a modern monitor or TV. It won't work in the other direction: you can't get a video signal from a modern computer to an old display that way.

 

Callan

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• Feb 14, 2024

• #4

It seems like they have convertors out there that do it, but having never used one i can't vouch for they're useabity.

 

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Arbee

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• Feb 15, 2024

• #5

On PCs those adapters typically only work if you can force the resolution to something they recognize (usually 720P or 1080P). They're not very good.

 

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waynestewart

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• Feb 15, 2024

• #6

There are HDMI to RCA converters out there. They're meant to do things like take the signal from a Blu-ray player to a CRT TV. I saw one in action a couple of years ago but didn't note the brand.

 

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Arbee

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• Feb 16, 2024

• #7

waynestewart said:

There are HDMI to RCA converters out there. They're meant to do things like take the signal from a Blu-ray player to a CRT TV. I saw one in action a couple of years ago but didn't note the brand.

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Yes, OP says in the first post that he’s using one.

 

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dcr

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• Feb 16, 2024

• #8

Arbee said:

Yes, OP says in the first post that he’s using one.

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No, the OP said a "RCA to hami" convertor which we assume to mean "RCA to HDMI". That is not the same as HDMI to RCA.

The OP would need the latter as opposed to the former to use the monitor with a Mac mini.