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From: vakselro@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Vadim Josh Akselrod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 8-bit 19" color for $999
Message-ID: <12155@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 19 May 91 16:33:52 GMT
References: <4cBP4S600WBLA1o0UE@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <4cBP4S600WBLA1o0UE@andrew.cmu.edu> bh11+@andrew.cmu.edu (Braddock John Hathaway) writes:
>Does this sound too good to be true?  I think so too, which is why I am
>posting to the net.  There is a company that is offering a 19 inch color
>monitor w/8-bit card for $999 + shipping.  The name of the company is
>"Relax Technology."  Has anyone ever dealt with this company?  What kind
>of 19" monitor do you think one would get for such a price?  I'm really
>curious but really skeptical as well.
>
>Any thoughts on this would be welcome.
>
>--Brad

I saw this beast at MacWorld in SF last year.  They were trying to pawn them
off for $1399 each then.  The contrast on the tube is horrible.  I could not
read 9-point type unless it was on the center of the screen, and reading
bigger text gave me headaches (from just 5 minutes of reading!).  I tried
some test patterns on the screen and they all looked bad.  It was not very
bright, but not too bad.  I could not see a functional use of the corner 
areas though - they were complete blurs.

The really usable area of the monitor was about 13" in the middle, and I'm
sure you can get a better 8-bit monitor/card combo for $999.  This might have
been the single monitor they brought to MacWorld, but one would suspect that
they would show off their best display.  If so, I'd hate to see the worst.

Just my $.02 worth (maybe).  Cheers,

-Vadim "Josh" Akselrod