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>Before my C-Vue I owned an Apple LCD display for about 2 weeks.
>I was so disappointed in the lack of contrast that I sold it.
>Fortunately, I found my C-Vue for $15 (attached to a broken IIc).
>The C-Vue is also difficult to view but is much better than the
>Apple display...Since you have a C-Vue you can imagine how bad
>the Apple display must be! :-)

   My C-Vue is borderline usable if there is direct sunlight
behind it--or a strong artifical light source is pointed at
it directly at a certain angle (interestingly, a flashlight
can work better than sunlight, but that's not a solution and
it only lights up one area).

   On a whole, it is actually a much lower contrast and more
difficult to see than the (circa 1989) Nintendo Gameboy LCD.
I always thought nothing could be worse than that, but the
C-Vue is! To go even lower than that, the Apple LCD must be
like reading text phosphor burn-out on a CRT. ;-)

>I too have the IIc Plus with C-Vue. While I don't use it too often
>it is such a neat combo I think I'll be keeping it forever. I have
>a 1Mb Chinook RAM card and have been thinking of adding a No Slot
>Clock to make it more complete.

    I have a No-Slot-Clock in my IIc Plus and have been thinking
of adding a 1 MB Slinky RAM card to make it more complete. :)

>One time Tony Diaz mentioned the possibility of 'adding' backlighting
>to a IIc LCD display. But, it sounded a little risky so I never
>followed up with him via e-mail. Would be real neat though!

    It's an interesting idea I wouldn't mind trying, but I'd
be rather afraid of damaging it (they're not common enough
where I'm likely to ever find one again). Probably the best
way to get a portable Apple II is to use an emulator on a
laptop or notebook computer these days (you'd even get color
in some cases, which is a plus!).

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca