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From: kanefsky@cs.umn.edu (Steve Kanefsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: ??Internal SE/30 color monitor??
Message-ID: <1990Mar14.213958.25395@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 90 21:39:58 GMT
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In article <1990Mar14.180256.25674@Neon.Stanford.EDU> philip@pescadero.stanford.edu writes:
>In article <1990Mar13.210213.11794@cs.umn.edu>, kanefsky@cs.umn.edu
>(Steve Kanefsky) writes:
>> >Is it remotely possible that Apple might produce a colour SE/30?
>> 
>> The SE/30 is every bit as much of a color machine as a Mac II.  In other
>> words, it has Color Quickdraw built into ROM, and in each cases you must 
>> purchase a separate color monitor and video card to display color.  The 
>> only difference is that the SE/30 comes with a "free" 9-inch built-in 
>> monochrome monitor.  
>
>Sorry if I did not make this clear (I thought the Subject was obvious). I
>*know* about adding external monitors. I meant an *internal* colour (or,
>for that matter, grey-scale) monitor.

Well, I figured that was what you meant, but I just wanted to clear up
any confusion some people may have had regarding the color capabilities
of an SE/30.  I don't doubt that a lot of people would have bought SE/30's
instead of IIcx's if they knew that in many cases you can get an equivalent
system (except for NuBus) for a lot less.

Anyway, I feel that moving towards more modular Macintosh systems would
be preferable to trying to cram a color monitor and related circuitry
inside an SE/30.  I don't want to be locked into a particular configuration
like that.  Having a cheap monochrome monitor thrown in is one thing, but
if I'm going to pay for color, I want to be able to choose the type and
size of monitor/video card I want.  I also like the idea of having the cpu 
and/or hard disk just be a "box" that I can stick somewhere and (almost) 
forget about, which is one of the design philosophies behind the NeXT cube.
I like the way Apple put ADB ports in their portrait display, so you can
plug your keyboard and mouse in the back and then run a cable back to the
box, avoiding the clutter of extra wires running to the box and allowing
a greater distance between the monitor and the box.  Are there any other
monitors that have this?


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Steve Kanefsky             
kanefsky@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu