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From: werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Seiko CM1430 monitor
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Date: 21 Jul 89 02:23:54 GMT
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	I have become intimately aquainted with the Seiko CM-1430 monitor
in the past few weeks. With the power off, its most impressive feature
is its depth -- it's deep.  When on, it has a very nice picture, too.
It can do 1024x768 interlaced.  It has trouble doing 800x600.  According
to Seiko, only the Tecmar VGA-AD and the Orchid ProDesigner VGA cards will
drive it in 800x600.  With a Paradise card, for instance, you get 800x600,
but there is a horizontal roll at the rate of approx. 1.5 screenfuls/second,
slow enough to see the image, but quick enough to make you queasy.  The
way the above two do it is to put the monitor in a hybrid mode where the
screen is 1024 by 700 (twice EGA 350) and then display the 800x600
image with a little screen shrinkage.  Now, I think the following is also
notable. I happen to own a Wells-American, who puts the EGA/VGA on an
I/O board, with an OEM'd Paradise chip.  Over the course of a week, I
talked to technical support personnel from Wells, from Paradise, and
from Orchid.  Every technical support person I talked to had a Seiko 1430
on the computer in front of them (now I realize 3 for 3 is not a large
sample, but it was getting pretty ironic after awhile.) I do not know
what that says, but I'm sure that there's a message there somewhere...
-- 
	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 4.5 years down, 2.5 to go)
	     werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
              (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517)
      "... Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous To Your Health"