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From: aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Low cost Mac's ?
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Date: 22 Aug 90 16:22:23 GMT
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In article <36573@ut-emx.UUCP> awessels@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>In article <1990Aug21.233312.7181@portia.Stanford.EDU> aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) writes:
>
>>Anyway, my point was that the Herc is not "terrible," even by today's 
>>standards...
>
>While I'll agree that Hercules res isn't terrible, you can't just compare dpi.
>If I remember right, Hercules res is around 720x350.  The Mac is 512x342.  If
>you work out the dpi, you'll find the Herc doesn't come out so well.  Pile on

My monitor is a 10"er.  Works out to roughly the same (720/10 ~= 72; I know, 
the 10" is the diagonal measurement, but it's nominal anyway...  With a handy
ruler I measured the width...)

>top of that the fact that the pixels on the Mac screen are much more crisp than
>on a Hercules screen.

The crispness of the pixels relates to the quality of the monitor (and to a
much lesser extent the quality of the Herc-compatible board itself).  I find
that my Samsung is as crisp as a Mac--no surprise since Samsung makes the
tubes for both...

Aaron Wallace