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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 3rd party Mac II RGB monitors
Keywords: Mac II, Monitors
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Date: 15 Sep 88 14:04:29 GMT
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In article <1052@pc.ecn.purdue.edu> zink@pc.ecn.purdue.edu (William T. Zink) writes:
>I am getting ready to purchase a Mac II and was looking for advice
>on 3rd party RGB monitors. I saw an ad in the July 12 MacWeek for
>a 13 inch RGB monitor for only $399. It is made by Hardware House Inc
>in Philadelphia. Has anyone used this monitor? How does it compare
>to Apples RGB monitor

Be sure the monitor works on a Mac, i.e., it uses analog signals.  I hooked
up my NEC multisync to the Mac II at work and the color was so muddy 
compared to the Apple color monitor that I completely put off plans to buy
a Mac II at this time.  I thought that with my existing monitor and external
60MB hard drive, I could make a Mac II affordable.  Now that I'm using a
large screen (monochrome) at work, I wouldn't trade it for any color monitor.

The letters are crisp (E machines big picture) though smaller and color is
only nice to look at. The loss of speed with 256 colors and the courser
text is just not comparable to a large screen monochrome if you are primarily
manipulating text.

Shirley Kehr