Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uhccux!careyk From: careyk@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Carey Kinoshita) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Reason for Mac LC delay Keywords: MC680what?! Message-ID: <10273@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Date: 13 Nov 90 20:59:36 GMT References: <21601@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <9185@latcs1.oz.au> <46438@apple.Apple.COM> <1990Nov13.182745.10708@midway.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: careyk@uhccux.UUCP (Carey Kinoshita) Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 16 In article <1990Nov13.182745.10708@midway.uchicago.edu> francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes: >In article <46438@apple.Apple.COM> marc@Apple.COM (Mark Dawson) writes: > >Also, they redesigned for 8-bit instead of 4-bit color, which meant (a) >time for redesign, which is prob. why the production started later, >and (b) time to get the 8-bit version through the FCC. >Right? > > I just saw a couple of 8 Bit Color Pictures on a Mac LC with the new Apple 12" RGB Monitor and the color was nothing compared to what you get on a Mac II/13 RGB Monitor. The color on the Mac LC looks like the color you get on a Nintendo or a Commodore 64. I wonder what a Mac II/12 RGB Monitor combination would look like. This would clear up whether it is the Mac LC or the 12 RGB Monitor that is making the color look this bad.