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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Monochrome Monitors doing 500 lines?
Summary: Not quite the same
Message-ID: <135@obie.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 88 00:59:15 GMT
References: <1018@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <1543@gos.ukc.ac.uk>
Organization: the Well of Souls
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In article <1543@gos.ukc.ac.uk>, zzkj@gos.ukc.ac.uk (Z.Z.K.Johannes) writes:
> Funnily enough, the SM125 looks absolutely identical (in EVERY detail except
> the case colour and Atari badge and the phosphor colour) to a friends monitor
> on his PC. It can display 700+ by 450+ (he uses some kind of Super-Hercules
> graphic card).

The monitor may BE the same (the SM124 is essentially a Goldstar
monitor, I think), but the interfaces aren't.  IBM PC and Hercules
monitors run off a TTL interface.  The ST mono signal is a composite
video signal.
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