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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Paperwhite
Message-ID: <1530@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Mar-87 00:39:00 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1530
Posted: Wed Mar 11 00:39:00 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Mar-87 21:00:33 EST
References: <8703081013.AA13924@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <2098@alvin.mcnc.UUCP> <2741@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <2741@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> spencer@mica.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer) writes:
>
>The thought that came to mind was, now that IBM has all these new "paperwhite"
>monitors coming to market, can't we hook up the digital RGB outputs of the 
>Amiga to one of these monitors as TTL input?  Then you get a B&W _and_ a
>color analog RGB display.

You can - but for good results you need an composite (analog) monochrome monitor
or one that has built-in CGA/EGA-->grey scale conversion.  The default screen
presentations on a 2-level IBM TTL monochrome monitor are difficult to work
with, although if you work in a CLI/Utility environment you wouldn't have too
much difficulty.

"Paper White" is definitly something we are looking at.  I've seen one cruddy
monitor and one *nice* one so far.   Remember that the Amiga has relatively
generic video outputs, and can be made to work with just about any monitor
that has NTSC sync timings, or can be adjusted/tweaked so.

>PPS.  I got my hands on a CMI model CM 5619 40 meg hard disk (37.5 formatted)
>hard disk.

If you got it because it was cheap, then be sure to use it on somebody's PC
for a while before you spring for an Amiga controller.  There are a lot of
marginal to dead CMI drives floating around these days...
-- 
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