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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: really big monitor
Keywords: Kentucky Fried Spam-hmmmm, it's great!
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Date: 31 Aug 88 01:50:29 GMT
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In article <14086@ames.arc.nasa.gov| mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick) writes:
|Here's an interesting little thing I found in the Cleveland Amiga User's
|Group newsletter "The Amiga GURU", August 1988. . .
|
|"Commodore announced on August 1st the introduction of the Viking 1,
                                                            ^^^^^^^^
|a 19 inch high-resolution monochrome monitor for the Amiga. . .

Very interesting since I have been using the original Viking monitor
that Moniterm built for IBM RTs (dubbed the AED) for over three years
mow.  Moniterm later manufactured that monitor for the IBM RT, IBM PC
and the Mac with various adapters for each machine.  They all are top
of the line monitors. Very sharp and nice.

|The new monitor is a result of a joint development between Commodore and 
|Moniterm, a leading manufacturer of high-resolution monitors.
|"The new Viking 1 monitor features 1008x800x2 bits resolution, 72 mhz
|pixel frequency and 56 Khz horizontal frequency. With it's 19.6 inch
|diagonal screen the monitor weighs 36 pounds. . .

That's pretty much identical to the features of the original AED Viking 1.
All in all a very good choice.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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