What is a DIN-8 PDS card in SE-30? — #17

Post #17 by mcdermd

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Hardware
Post Date	Sat, 18 Jun 2011 - 20:37
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/what-is-a-din-8-pds-card-in-se-30.23240/

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Atari and Commodore used a DIN 8 cable to output what was essentially S-Video before S-Video was standardized on a 7 pin mini din. The breakout cable went into RCA-style plugs for luma and chroma.

From Wikipedia:

wikipedia.org[/url]"]Before the mini-DIN plug became standard, S-Video signals were often carried through different types of connectors. For example, the Commodore 64 home computer of the 1980s, one of the first widely available devices to feature an S-Video output, used an eight-pin connector similar to the DIN connector on the computer end and a pair of phono plugs on the monitor end. (Also available via third-party vendors was an eight-pin DIN-to-4-pin mini-DIN to connect the Commodore directly to a television.)

Seeing how it was a fairly common at the time, I wouldn't be surprised if that's all that SE/30s card is.