Re: apple IIc color monitor

["mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Feb 6, 9:34 pm, Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumf...@xgmail.xcom>
wrote:

> Interesting. makes me wonder where that leaves my platinum IIe. It has a
> board which apparently looks like a PAL board according to descriptions
> I've read yet it says NTSC screenprinted onto the board. It also has the
> US/UK charactersets and the switch underneath the keyboard to toggle them.

The platinum IIe outputs 50hz NTSC on the European/Australian models,
as does the IIc.

The only monitors that will correctly display this signal (in colour)
are the AppleColour Composite displays. The IIe and IIc units are
functionally identical, and differ only in their casing.

This annoyed me sufficiently that several years ago I bought a US
motherboard for my 'production' IIe. I have been much happier since.

> Slight extra tangent. I was reading some of the ProDOS tech reference last
> night (I know, strange bit of bedtime reading) and realised that
> expansionwise my IIe was the same as an unexpanded IIc.

If you installed a mouse card in slot 7 on a IIe, you qualify as
wierd ;-)

Matt