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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MacSac for Amy (Really Tramiel, LP monochrome monitors)
Message-ID: <2851@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 11:46:22 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2851
Posted: Tue Nov 24 11:46:22 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Nov-87 23:31:47 EST
References: <18477@amdahl.amdahl.com> <21885@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1886@cadovax.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 19
Keywords: Macintosh Magic Sac

In article <1886@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes:
> In article <21885@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
> >In all practicality he is correct.  Try and go to an Amiga dealer and
> >purchase a LP monochrome monitor.  Of the Bay Area dealers I talked
> >to most had never heard you could do such a thing, and the rest had
> >heard that it was possible, but could not sell me a monitor.
> 
> I got news for you guy, the stock IBM PC green monochrome monitor is LP.

It also isn't useful on an Amiga, since it has a 18 KHz horizontal scan
and 50 Hz vertical scan i.e. not an NTSC monitor.  Usually they can be
fixed with a few simple component substitutions, but that's hacker, not
dealer territory.


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