Re: IIe and IIc USB interface in the works. Need input.

[Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>]

On Fri, 22 Mar 2013, Lee O. wrote:

> On 2013-03-21 16:27:37 +0000, option8 said:
>
> > Just to clarify, the vido adapter i've built is to take VGA signal out from 
> > a modern computer and send it to a monochrome Apple display. Not the other 
> > way around.
> >
> > The only caveat is that you have to set your video card or driver to sync 
> > to NTSC instead of VGA, but that's easily handled with software like 
> > SwitchResX ( http://www.madrau.com/SRXv3/html/SRX/About.html )
>
> As an alternate, you could just swap the actual CRT to one with the inputs 
> you want.
>
> I was lucky, when I built the macminitosh I was able to find a bolt-in tube 
> from a POS display, monochrome with white phosphor even.
>
> http://www.destruc.tv/minitosh/
>
> You'd be hard pressed to find a monochrome green phosphor vga display, but 
> maybe not.
maybe now, but there was a time when color VGA wasn't an absolute.  I 
remember when I actually got an "IBM PC type computer" in 2001, I had to 
scrounge, and found a monochrome VGA monitor.  I can't even remember where 
I got that.  I soon discovered things had moved on, I had problems reading 
the install process for Linux because the installer expected a color 
monitor.

But at some point they were out there, for when color wasn't needed or for 
lower cost.

> On that note I'm in the process of swapping caps on a Monitor II that I 
> rescued from a compost pile.
It would have taken quite a long time to decompose.

  Michael