Re: Apple II Monitor suggestions

[canadiancA2@none.nonet (canadiancA2)]

In article <4240087B.D23CD118@usa.net>, a2forever@usa.net wrote:
> The best RGB monitor, would be color Commodore 1084S or Philips CM11342.
> Both are designed and made by Philips, with similar specifications and
> supports stereo sound.
> 
> Connectors: RGB, CVBS/L, Audio-L and Audio-R.
> Controls/Switches: Analogue/TTL, CVBS/RGB and Saturation.
> 
> It's also the most versatile, being configurable to operate as computer
> monitor for a vary of computers like Acorn Archimedes (most earlier
> models), Commodore Amiga series,  Commodore 64 and Apple IIGS. Great for
> other pratical functions, setup as television-only via video recorder and
> usable screen to Playstation game console.
> 
> I tested it on Apple IIe without RGB card, using the standard video cable
> and goes in black & white only. I don't believe color is possible.


One has to be careful with the Commodore 1084 line of monitors, there are
many variations made with different capabilities. The later ones with
appendeges to the model name (ie. 1084-D, 1084S-D2, etc.) may not have
analog RGB inputs and may have only digital RGB (TTL) amongst some other
features found/not found on the standard 1084 (mono sound built in) and
1084S (same as 1084 but with stereo sound built in).

As a matter of fact, I've seen pictures of the various 1084 models, and
some of them look quite a bit different physically than others.  Very
confusing if you don't know the specs of each model variation.  I'm still
trying to piece together the information so I know exactly what model does
what and has what features that would be desirable to hook up to any Apple
II and Tandy CoCo.

Having said all that, I would agree, the most common "standard" Commodore
1084 and Commodore 1084S would be great choices, as well as their Magnavox
equivalants such as the Magnavox 8CM515 (mono) and 1CM135 (stereo) to
mention a few (there are more applicable Magnavox monitors, but I don't
know the exact model names/features of those).

I know the Magnavox 8CM515 was really popular in the CoCo 3 world back in
the late '80s, due to it's dot pitch (better than Tandy's CM-8 companion
monitor to the CoCo 3) capability to do analog RGB, composite color, and
also had that neat little monochrome switch button to kill the color and
go green only, when you needed monochrome only for stuff like text work
(wordprocessing, etc.) on the screen.  The model which replaced it as far
as I can tell was the 1CM135, which had stereo sound instead of mono
sound.