Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!pasteur!agate!eos!phil
From: phil@eos.UUCP (Phil Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Where to buy ApleII monochrome monitor
Message-ID: <504@eos.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 88 17:08:25 GMT
References: <1301@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <19005@sci.UUCP>
Reply-To: phil@eos.UUCP (Phil Stone)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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In article <19005@sci.UUCP> raymund@sci.UUCP (Raymund Galvin) writes:
}In article <1301@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>, mjw@F.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Michael Witbrock) writes:
}} 
}} Since it appears that I'll have better luck getting a cheap Apple II
}} monitor to work with my amiga.....
}} where do you get cheap Apple II
}} monitors. ......
}
}Magnavox sells a cheap ($85-90) monochrome composite monitor intended for use
}with an appleII, C64, or atari 800.   The monitor is available with either
}    (monitor description deleted)
}(hires) mode.   Unfortunately,  the monitor looks like hell on an A1000.
}Apparently, the color information in the A1000 signal seriously degrades
}the picture quality. 
} 
}ray galvin

I use a (very inexpensive) monochrome monitor with my A1000 as a supplement
and occasional replacement for my Sony 1311.  The picture is great, and the
text is much easier on the eyes than the corresponding text in color.

The trick to getting a good look out of the monochrome monitor is to set
Preferences' Workbench colors to grey-scale values, i.e., ones with equal
amounts of R, G, and B signals.  As long as the color sliders line up
vertically, the color should look good on a monochrome monitor (unbalanced
RGB colors tend to "swim").

I keep two versions of the system configuration file, one with my color
Preferences, and one with monochrome.  An Exec script can be made to easily
swap the two (by renaming).

phil stone