Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!LSUVM.BITNET!$CSD211 From: $CSD211@LSUVM.BITNET (Mark Orr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: applecolor RGB on pc? Message-ID: <9011091602.AA22641@apple.com> Date: 9 Nov 90 15:49:24 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 36 >I have had a GS on my desk for a while now and wouldn't think of giving it up. > >I find though that from time to time I need to work with a pc. Rather than >setting up another desk I wouldn't mind setting the pc under my desk. When >not in use I would store the keyboard on top of the pc. > >I run into problems with the monitor. Can a pc with an ega card successfully >drive the applecolor RGB monitor? I would like to set up a switch to be able >to select between the pc and the GS. Am I talking nonsense? (Yes I considered >using a pc transporter but rejected this because it is too slow and I can >only get cga). >George Rachor Jr. >Rachor Data Center, Beaverton, OR 97005 >racsys!george@flight.hf.intel.com No, you can't use an AppleColor RGB monitor on a PC. Most if not all PC monitors are use digital (TTL) outputs while RGB outputs for apples use analog RGB. Other than that the connectors are physically different (DB-9's for PC's and DB-15's for Apples). However, some new PC monitors advertise "Macintosh compatibility" and should work with a IIgs. It would be better (cheaper) to get seperate monitors; as these analog/digital monitors (made by companies like NEC, Nanao, etc.) tend to be expensive (~$1000). Amazingly, it would be easier if you had a //e. Applied Engineering makes a dual analog/digital video interface (which works w/ PC monitors) for its Ramworks III card...but they make no such interface for the IIgs. ----------------------------- "You will die...you will die slowly... Mark Orr ! your stomach will swell...your intestines $CSD211@LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU ! will writhe and boil...your eyes will burst @LSUVM.BITNET ! ...and some horrible stuff, possibly your ----------------------------- brains, will start coming out through your nose." - Apple's new marketing slogan for the II series.