Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!homxb!mtuxo!mtune!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!unisoft!gethen!farren From: farren@gethen.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: That MAC II Monitor Message-ID: <267@gethen.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 02:08:58 EST Article-I.D.: gethen.267 Posted: Fri Oct 30 02:08:58 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 1-Nov-87 07:12:29 EST References: <253@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <642@louie.udel.EDU> Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) Organization: Sci-Fido - Unix in Oakland Lines: 32 In article <642@louie.udel.EDU> rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich) writes: >Just got a look at a MAC II. Nice box. I do not like it as much >as my amiga but there are individual things i like a lot better, one >of which is the monitor. Can anyone explain: >1) What is the refresh rate (i.e. did they get that nice display > with 60 hz.?) The refresh rate may or may not be 60 Hz, but the horizontal frequency is certainly not 15KHz, the NTSC value. Probably about twice that, 30 KHz or so. This figure, rather than the refresh rate, is what determines how much a monitor can display on one frame - interlace mode on the Amiga splits a screen up into two frames, which introduces interlacing and all of its flicker problems. >2) is it a long persistence monitor? No, it doesn't need to be. See above. >3) I am told it is a Sony- what model is it most like?(i.e. KV1311,etc.) It is a Sony, but I don't know what model. I do know that it has been tweaked considerably in order to work perfectly with the existing Apple video card, which is why it looks so nice. Similar tweaking could probably be done with a similar monitor to get similar results on the Amiga, especially with a scan converter card to get rid of interlacing. -- ---------------- Michael J. Farren "... if the church put in half the time on covetousness unisoft!gethen!farren that it does on lust, this would be a better world ..." gethen!farren@lll-winken.arpa Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days"