Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:35447 comp.sys.apple:14890 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!snjsn1!hathor!sbchanin From: sbchanin@hathor (Steve Chanin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Kinko's press release Keywords: new distribution desired Message-ID: <1197@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> Date: 28 Jul 89 05:15:56 GMT References: <8398@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Sender: news@SJ.ATE.SLB.COM Reply-To: sbchanin@hathor.UUCP (Steve Chanin) Organization: Schlumberger ATE, San Jose, CA Lines: 46 Two completely unrelated points: Point 1 ------- First, I recently bought a Taxan Crystal View 19" Monocrome monitor for the Mac SE/30. It is 72dpi, 78Hz refresh, 1024*768 pixels. I comes with a built in tilt & swivel stand, a removable (velcro) glare filter, and a video card for the SE/30. All for $1399 (including FedEx shipping) from MacZone in Redmond, WA. It is also available for the SE and the II(x)(cx). The screen is flicker free and clear. The glare filter works pretty well also. However, it does have a few problems. First, the menu bar distorts when there are open windows below it. Second, the screen area for about an inch in from both sides is somewhat out of focus. Usable, but annoying. Third, slight distortions appear on screen next to vertical areas of high contrast (i.e. on the desktop next to an open window). Overall, its a decent monitor. It is cheaper than anything else for the SE/30 and very compatible (it uses the standard Monitors cdev for configuration and allows you to use both your SE screen and itself). Installing the video card in the SE/30 is piece of cake. I don't have experience with any other two page displays (except my Sun 3's which is bigger, bows less, and is focused over the whole screen, but doesn't have as sharp and contrasty an image) so I can't compare it to anything else, but I thought I'd share my observations after day 1 of ownership. Point 2 ------- Apple should add another zoom box like entity to window to shrink them down to icons. When you're using a TPD or FPD with your Mac, having a bunch of open windows isn't so bad. However when your working with a small screen machine, it really is a pain to not be able to "iconify" your windows. For example, when I'm running multifinder (w/o the two page), I switch back to finder, but can't get at any of the disk icons because they are hidden behind windows. Sure I could just resize the windows, but that is a much bigger pain than automatically being able to shrink them (and restore them to the correct size) with a single click. If my description of iconification hasn't been clear, just remember the shrink window program posted in binaries a few months ago and imaging that rather than using the grow box, you used another menu bar button. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOMAIN: sbchanin@sj.ate.slb.com (for the adventurous) UUCP: {amdahl,decwrl,uunet}!sjsca4!sbchanin INTERNET: sbchanin%sjs@sdr.slb.com USMAIL: Steven Chanin, Schlumberger Technologies, 1601 Technology Drive, San Jose, CA 95110 PHONE: 408-437-5144