Re: Sony CPD-1302 monitor -- IIGS cable?

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

a2@noemail.nonet (a2) wrote:

>In article <1145377644.990278.181600@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>,
>"js@cimmeri.com" <js@cimmeri.com> wrote:
>
>>   Hi all,
>> 
>>     Just curious why would one want to use a non Apple monitor?   I am
>> using the original Apple digital color monitor with my IIgs.
>
>One might want to use a non Apple monitor....for more versatility, better
>dot pitch, etc.

    Keep in mind a better dot pitch defeats color dithering in the 640x200
mode. Instead of solid looking colors (the Finder and desktop applications)
you clearly see the alternating vertical colored lines. The 640 mode actually
_relies_ on the AppleColor RGB lesser dot pitch to work correctly. 

>For example, a monitor such as a Commodore 1084 or a Magnavox 8CM515 has
>mulitple types of inputs and modes of display.  Either one can accept
>digital RGB, analog RGB, color composite input, and in the case of the
>1084, also the seperate LUMA/CHROMA inputs (for the equivalant of S-Video
>input). Both monitors also have a built in speaker which makes it handy
>for hooking up to a DVD player, or a VCR, or other non-Apple computers
>from back in the day which most of them didn't have built in speakers
>inside the computer.
>
>Personally, I think the Apple IIgs RGB Monitor (the AppleColor RGB
>Monitor) sucks. Sure, it looks all cute and nice sitting on top of a IIgs
>computer due to it's form factor......but the display itself sucks.  I'd
>much rather use my Commodore 1084 hooked up to it.

    For color saturation the AppleColor RGB puts the Commodore 1084 to 
shame, colors look washed out and faded. It also lacks the extremely
dark tinted tube of the Apple screen, at least those manufactured
between 1986 and 1988 (I found later ones used an inferior tube).

    For text clarity and sharpness though it probably lags behind other
screens, and of course the picture size is fairly small when you take 
into account the border space.

    At the moment I have a total of 3 AppleColor RGB's, an Amiga 1080
and a NEC MultiSync 3D which all work with the IIgs. I'm still on the 
fench about the Sony 1302, I don't really need it but it doesn't hurt to
have a spare (assuming I can ever get ahold of a cable; maybe it'd be
easier finding a IIgs->Amiga 1080 cable). :)

Mitchell Spector