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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 12" monitor (generally) available CHEAP!
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Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 15:30:22 EDT
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In article <345@ge-mc3i.UUCP> sterritt@ge-mc3i.UUCP (Chris Sterritt) writes:
>	For those people who were looking at getting a larger monitor, 
>particularly for getting better eyeball-abuse figures, the 'users=group'
>Call-APPLE in Washington is selling a VERY inexpensive 12" monitor and
>adapter for either the 512, plus or (I'm pretty sure) SE.  I'm pretty sure
>it's just a size expansion without a pixel expansion, i.e. it's still a
>512 x 342 bit screen, but it's bigger, and you can put it where you want
>a little easier, etc.

Sorry, it would be pretty stupid to get one of these. 

It is too small to use for giving a presentation to a group and it is
large enough that if you take an ordinary Macintosh 342x512 picture
and project it on one of these guys the pixels are large enough that
you cross a threshold in the curve of the human nervous system so that
jaggies subtend a large enough arc in the visual field that picture
percieved as radically _poorer_ in quality, not better.  If you use
one of these screens and keep your distance from the Mac the same, the
image will seem worse because it larger, not better.  Getting in the
right part of the curve was part of the original design of the Mac in
the first place.

One passable use for such a display: you could mount it further away, and
work with just a keyboard and mouse+mousepad or trackball in your lap.

Seems like more pain than it is worth.

--- David Phillip Oster            --A Sun 3/60 makes a poor Macintosh II.
Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --A Macintosh II makes a poor Sun 3/60.
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