Re: IIgs monitor?

[Jack Countryman <jcountry@seidata.com>]

If you really have an Apple High Resolution 13" RGB Monitor (Model
M0401)...it was made for Macs.  Note that it takes a special cable
(590-4161-A [5ft long cable] or 590-0161-A [3 ft long cable])  to work
on those.  This was an expensive, heavy monitor for its day, and still
the one I prefer to use on older macs...IICx, IICi, IISi, etc. due to
its sharp, clear picture and good color.  They also seem to be very well
made and durable...I've seen very few with major problems.

The Apple IIGS monitor is the AppleColor RGB, also 13 inch, but model
A2M6014 and uses cable 590-0536-A.

These are easily distinguished visually, as the back of the IIGS montior
is curved in the horizontal plane...while the mac monitor is more of a
cube, with a flat back.  

Which one do you have?

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Edhel Iaur, Esq. wrote:
> 
> I was recently given an AppleColor High Resolution Monitor by a friend
> who said it works on IIgs's--Using my IIgs's monitor cable, we
> connected it to my IIgs, and got a VERY messed up version of what we
> were supposed to see (it looked like a real bad refresh-rate
> mismatch).  So we tried it on my Mac LC 475, also using my IIgs
> monitor cable.  The monitor stayed black.
> 
> Is this monitor usable on the IIgs, or what?  Or is it just broken?
> Does this monitor require a special cable?