Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!elroy!peregrine!ccicpg!felix!kehr From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: monitors and low-end video cards for Mac II? Message-ID: <69926@felix.UUCP> Date: 15 Nov 88 14:57:24 GMT References: <17863@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Sender: daemon@felix.UUCP Reply-To: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA Lines: 22 In article <17863@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> korfhage@CS.UCLA.EDU (Willard Korfhage) writes: > Our group is going to get some macs, and if we squeeze costs, we can >get IIs instead of SEs. One place to cut costs is the monitor and video >board. >Given the large number of monitors >available in the PC world, there's got to be some good ones that will work >with, say, the Apple video card. > Willard Korfhage I don't know of any that use analog, but perhaps there are some now. I tried my NEC Multisync, and had to push the switch over from ttl to analog. It seems that I remember something about that monitor being one of the first in the DOS world to use analog signals. Today's NEC multisync is not cheap, and as you say, you don't need color. I didn't mind giving up color at all for a large crisp monochrome monitor. Good Luck Shirley Kehr