Re: Apple III peripherals

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Tony Diaz (tdiaz@coyote.csusm.edu) wrote:

: I have an AppleColor 100 monitor hooked to the ///+ here. There is a switch
: inside the monitor labeled 8/16 colors. Switch it and you get true colors 
: on the Apple ///. Ever notice the upward 'tilt' on the bottom front of the
: monitor, looks suspiciously like the Monitor /// and does infact match the 
: Apple ///'s sloped up lid. Of course the monitor looks better on top
: of a //e.  I have wondered if the Color 100 was another example of the ///
: bail out... you know, ProDOS, AppleWorks.... Allthough a look in the back of
: a 1982 SOS reference manual, at the Filetype chart, a few filetypes are marked
: "ProDOS reserved" ProDOS didn't debut until Jan 1984. That book was written 
: two years earlier. The Apple II suffered so much at the heals of the Apple
: /// in so many small ways... The Apple //e, like the //c was slated for having
: 128K built in.. can't do that, would have more than the Apple /// at the time.

Yep I noticed that the monitor is shaped right to fit on a ///. I've had to
take the back off the monitor to fix the screen tilter a coupla times and 
noticed that switch. I had heard a rumor that the 100 was switchable between
digital and analog and figured that the switch did that.

I put the monitor on my old monitor /// stand since the thing is so freakin' 
heavy it can squash and distort the //e case.
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