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title: "TIFFS"
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excerpt: "Two short hardware tips. First: a standard 5-pin Commodore monitor cable works as a QL monitor cable, with the audio output usable as a video input in a pinch. Second: a caution about using write-protect tabs on disks when running certain software, as some programs behave unexpectedly when disk writes are blocked."
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  title: "SMUG Bytes"
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volume: "4"
issue: "12"
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  - id: 50218
    title: "SMUG Bytes v4 n12"
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pubdate: "December 1987"
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---

# TIFFS

Two short hardware tips. First: a standard 5-pin Commodore monitor cable works as a QL monitor cable, with the audio output usable as a video input in a pinch. Second: a caution about using write-protect tabs on disks when running certain software, as some programs behave unexpectedly when disk writes are blocked.