Re: What monitor do you have?

[Roger Johnstone <news2006@roger.geek.nz>]

In <8bit-1205060159160001@192.168.100.100> eight bitter wrote:
> Here is just a fun little informal poll...
> 
> What type of video display do you use with your real 8/16 bit Apple II 
> computer?

A Kaga RGBvision II. I originally used it with my IIe, with a Taxan-Kaga 
RGB IIB card. I bought the monitor and card when the local Apple agent 
was having a 'garage sale'. It was missing the short video cable between 
the card and back panel, and the computer to monitor cable. Not knowing 
how it was supposed to be connected I made my own cables wired up to the 
IIgs standard. This was kind of handy, since a year later I bought a 
IIgs and just plugged the monitor in with no changes.(1)

(1) Almost. Colour pictures in super hi-res mode didn't look quite right. 
The problem became obvious when I looked at a test picture with 16 
levels of gray in it: the top 4 or 5 greys all looked pure white! It 
seemed the IIgs video levels were too high for the monitor and were 
reaching saturation. Adding some resistors in the video lead cut the 
levels down and gave a perfect picture.

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Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
http://roger.geek.nz/
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