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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Big displays for Mac IIxs?
Message-ID: <84857@felix.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 89 15:01:49 GMT
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In article <506@athsys.UUCP> gardner%athsys.uucp@sun.com (Gardner Cohen) writes:
<I'm in the market for a big monochrome display for a mac IIx.  I've
<been following the complaints about the Radius TPD INIT problems.  How
<unusable is the Radius in native mode?  Is 82 dpi really that much
<smaller than 72?

Our hardware tech writers like the Radius display. That's what they
bought with their IIx's.

<Is it possible to use a mac with only a large display installed?  I'd
<like to purchase my next machine with no apple card/display, and put
<one of the big ones in.
 
Yes, that's the only way we've ever bought Mac IIs.

<I'd appreciate any information about the Supermac, Taxan, Radius, and
<Viking (or whatever it's called).  I'll summarize if responses warrant.

I'm waiting for the E Machines Z21 to be available for the SE/30. It's
probably available now for Mac IIx. It has four resolutions: 72 dpi (you
see 2 full pages, no margins), 80 dpi (you see 2 full pages plus margins),
and two more resolutions half of the others (presumably the size of the
characters double).

Some who have seen this monitor say it is fuzzy at the extreme edges. 
E Machines says that the whole screen can't be equally crisp, so they
give you a control that lets you easily adjust the clarity in different
parts of the screen. So if you mostly work on the left side, you can
set that part to be the most crisp and let the extreme right side be a
little fuzzy.

I use their 16-inch (85 dpi) monitor on the Mac II at work. Because I've
had no problems and it's the crispest display I've seen, I'm willing to
stay with E Machines. If FileNet had not bought this monitor for me,
I'd never have tried it on my own.

Shirley Kehr


>Gardner Cohen   sun!athsys!gardner
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>Gardner Cohen   sun!athsys!gardner  gardner%athsys.uucp@sun.com