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From: dplatt@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Color monitors
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Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 16:27:11 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 15 16:27:11 1987
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From what I've read, it seems that the Apple color monitor (for the
Mac II) is basically a Sony multi-sync monitor sold under the Apple
label.  The Apple monitor was allegedly co-designed by Apple and Sony
(or, at least, Apple carved some of the specifications for it).

Four questions for the multi-net-iverse:

1) Does anyone know how the Apple monitor differs from the generic Sony
   multi-sync monitor?

2) Has anyone actually seen an Apple monitor?  (I hear that they're
   still impossible to purchase, and may not have been shipped by Sony
   yet;  the electronic-products tariffs recently enacted have been
   given as one reason for the ship-slip)

3) Has anyone performed or observed a controlled comparison of these
   two monitors (i.e. hooked to a Mac II, using the same video card
   and the same cable, switching back and forth between monitors)?
   If so, what were the results?

4) Has anyone heard any rumors of a color-video card for the Mac II
   which would be capable of generating RGB output that would be
   compatible with "normal" RGB-capable monitors (i.e., those that run
   at the NTSC scanning rate)?

   My impression has been that monochrome cards/monitors tend to be
   "crisper" than color cards/monitors with the same number of pixels,
   and I do like that crispness... so I might be tempted to buy a
   monochrome card/monitor setup for normal use, and also have a color
   card that could drive my Sony KV20-XBR on those occasions when I
   really want color output.  This would be much less expensive than
   purchasing an extra color monitor, and I'd be willing to accept the
   lower resolution of the color screen, as I wouldn't be using it for
   normal day-to-day desktop operations.

advTHANKSance.