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From: mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 3rd party Mac II RGB monitors
Keywords: Mac II, monitors
Message-ID: <6339@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 16 Sep 88 21:56:02 GMT
References: <1052@pc.ecn.purdue.edu> <58600@felix.UUCP>
Reply-To: mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
Organization: Department of Media Services, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <58600@felix.UUCP> kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) writes:
>In article <1052@pc.ecn.purdue.edu> zink@pc.ecn.purdue.edu (W T. Zink) writes:
>>I am getting ready to purchase a Mac II and was looking for advice
>>on 3rd party RGB monitors...                                     
>
>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

Shirley makes it sound as though all color monitors are by nature not as
good for text as monochrome monitors are.  There's no doubt that for
exclusively-text uses a monochrome monitor is the best choice (why pay
more for color if you won't use it?), but I find that Apple's High
Resolution RGB Monitor has ridiculously sharp text, in any color mode, as
well as in monochrome mode (selected from the Control Panel's Monitors
cdev).  One of the most interesting praises of the Mac II system as a
whole was that its color monitor displayed black-and-white text in as   
high resolution as, AND AS SHARPLY as, the original Mac screen.

I have since seen RGB monitors with more impressive color graphics (such  
as IBM's new 8514 display for its PS/2 line) but NONE with as sharp, clear,
simply READABLE monochrome text.


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