Re: Color Composite monitor for platinum IIe

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In article <PsSdndnWren0JV3eRVn-tg@comcast.com>,
 "Matthew S. Carpenter" <superpsycho@comcast.net> wrote:

> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> > Lyrical Nanoha wrote:
> > 
> >> On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Matthew S. Carpenter wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I've been getting stuff for a bare platinum Apple IIe I picked up
> >>> recently and just got to thinking.... the only color composite monitors
> >>> I have are rather deep and really wont look right sitting on the
> >>> platinum IIe.  I can deal with it for now... but things like that do
> >>> tend to annoy me after a while. Did Apple make a color composite monitor
> >>> that looks like it was meant to match with the platinum IIe?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Sure did, had one.
> > 
> > 
> > But it, too, was pretty deep.
> > 
> > The AppleColor Composite monitor for the //e was 14" deep.
> > Most color monitors have narrow deflection angles relative
> > to monochrome monitors, because of the need to minimize
> > aberrations with the larger tri-beam bundle.
> > 
> > If the monitor is placed so that the screen plane is near
> > the place where the //e top flattens out (as is common with
> > monochrome monitors), it projects six inches further back
> > than the //e, which is rather deep itself.  Of course, if
> > you have any large-cabled devices plugged into your //e,
> > they will take up 3"-4" behind it, even turning sharply.
> > 
> > Bottom line, there are no "shallow" color CRT monitors
> > relative to their screen size.  They will be at least
> > as deep as their screen size, and sometimes deeper.
> > 
> 
> Oh, I should have worded better... I'm refering to the bottom of the 
> monitor that would actually sit on the IIe.... the monitors I have would 
> have two of their rubber feet sitting off the IIe in back, so they 
> wouldn't nessesarily be sitting very stabily...  as long as  the monitor 
> actually fits on the IIe properly(and preferably has a same color case 
> as the platinum IIe), that's what I'm looking for.

You could easily build a hidden shelf that mounts to the bottom of the 
monitor so it fits in the 'well' on top of the ][.