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From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,rec.video
Subject: Re: Mac II monitor--indispensable?
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Date: 5 May 89 16:40:23 GMT
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In article <59206@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> jellinghaus-robert@CS.Yale.EDU (Rob Jellinghaus) writes:
>Has anyone out there got a system like this?  How much worse does the display
>get if you bag the Apple monitor and hook up a multisync monitor?  Would I
>be able to live with it?  Anyone who has done this, please let me know what
>your experience has been, before I go and sell my current monitor... thanks!

Just yesterday I saw a NEC MultiSync monitor hooked up to a Mac II.  It
looks like a TV, NOT like the beautiful Apple RGB Monitor.  By looking
like a TV, I mean it flickers, looks crummy, etc.  Colors looked washed
out.  I personally have a Sony 27" XBR TV at home that looks much better
than the MultiSync, but I only use it for TV, not for the Mac.  I have a
Apple RGB Monitor for my Mac II, and it is highly recommended.

You do have a problem.  It really would be nice to have high quality
both in one box.  And you can, but it costs $$$$.  My solution is, of
course, get a card that allows NTSC on the Sony/Apple RGB Monitor.

If this is not an option due to finances (and I can definitely
understand that), if I were back in college, I would keep the Apple RGB
Monitor and write great programs to use it, and the heck with TV.  It is
largely a bunch of low-budget movies anyway.  I went through all of my
college years without a TV and did fine, in fact, probably much better
than if I had watched TV.  College should be spend reading and studying
and in the library.  After all, your spending someone's hard earned
money to do that, so you might as well get the most bang for the buck.

Sorry for the "Fatherly" sounding advice, but bag the TV, and program
away!

Dan Allen
HyperCard Team
Apple Computer