Re: Color Composite monitor for platinum IIe

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Matthew S. Carpenter 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.

Ah--well, it's unfortunately too deep for that, too.  The //e color
monitor has its back "feet" at the very back, so they wouldn't sit on
top of the //e either.  Maybe "auxiliary" feet could be added to the
monitor mid-way between the front and back...

ISTR that the Amdek monitor had its center of gravity well forward,
and could perch on the 7" to 8" of usable flat space on top of a
][ or //e.

-michael

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