Re: LCD for IIc?

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

When the //c was introduced, there were three peripherals which were
supposed to go with it.  They were...
a.  The Monitor //c--
    A green monochrome composite display, fairly elfin and lightweight
    like the //c.  To make it work _well_ with the //c, though, you really
    have to have the stand as well...a big cast-iron contraption that weighs
    about twice as much as the monitor, and ten times as much as the computer!

b.  The Scribe printer--
    This was a thermal printer, Apple's first attempt at a color printer.
    The output was really quite good, especially on plain paper using the 
    wax-based thermal transfer ribbons.  Trouble came, though, when you
    tried to print color...the ribbons were one-time and rather short!

c.  The LCD flat-panel display.  This was NOT, in fact, released when the
    computer came out, but it was ultimately released.  Most of the reviews
    I read about it at the time were rather negative, indicating that the 
    display came too close to the edges of the screen, was hard to read, etc.

I should also mention that portability was the reason Apple went for the
power brick instead of an internal power-supply for the //c...makes it as
easy to hook up a battery pack as a power brick.  But the idea of a //c as
a portable computer never really seemed to catch on.

On the other hand, I have the //gs at home...it seems to me that then
travelling it might be nice to have a //c and a little portable
black-and-white monitor (or the LCD panel) so that I could create files
for my home computer.  Hey...the //c WILL run AppleWriter!
(AppleWorks, too, for that matter...)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
(all historical observations subject to memory fault!)
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