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From: dbfunk@ICAEN.UIOWA.EDU (David B Funk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: DN2500/DN3X00 monitors
Message-ID: <9001130722.AA00118@icaen.uiowa.edu>
Date: 13 Jan 90 07:03:45 GMT
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In posting <1990Jan11.214435.5622@quintro.uucp> Roger E. Benz asks:

> We are currently considering ordering some DN2500's to replace some old
> DN3000's and were wondering if the 19" mono display from the DN3000 can be
> swapped with the 15" mono display on the DN2500.
> 
> We are also interested in low cost drives for the DN2500's.

No the DN3X00 19" mono display can not be used on a DN2500. The DN2500
uses a composite video signal to the monitor and all other Apollo
mono machines (that I know of) use monitors that need seperate sync &
video signals. Thus the DN2500/monitor is incompatable with any other
Apollo monitors. It may be possible to use a DN2500 with a monitor from
some 3rd party vendor like the Radius 2-page display for a Macintosh
but this is pure conjecture. IE I don't know if this will work, it's just
a guess.

For low cost disk drives for a DN2500 check out MDL corp:

- Michael Lampi   MDL Corporation   213/782-7888   fax 213/782-7927

The last flyer that I saw from Michael quoted ~$1700 for a 200 Mbyte
internal drive.

Dave Funk