Re: FS: Apple IIc Flat Panel Display Monitor

[fogging@fog.winnipeg (fog the city)]

In article <20040720024304.26045.00000125@mb-m28.aol.com>, mjmahon@aol.com
(Michael J. Mahon) wrote:
> Having more _potential_ bandwidth with, say, component video inputs
> has nothing to do with the _actual_ bandwidth which the monitor will
> extract from a composite signal.  And S-video converted from composite
> will have exactly the same issues.  A "special" S-video adapter that
> passed on the higher luminance bandwidth actually present in the
> Apple composite output could be somewhat better, but not enough
> better to make 80-columns look good.

Yes, that was my assumption.  :)
I was just wondering in my previous post if a modern day LCD/Plasma
display could be phycially hooked up to the composite video output of any
Apple II model so that one could have a display output to at least as good
as that of a color composite monitor hooked up to any Apple II.


I have a pair of Commodore 13/14 inch color composite monitors from the
1980's, and both do a fairly decent job at displaying 80 column text from
the Apple //e and Apple //c and Apple IIc Plus. Even better when I turn
the color right down to as low as the monitor's control knob will allow.

Now, my Tandy CoCo 3 and it's 80 column text is a different story on these
same monitors. No matter what I do to adjust the color or even kill it
altogether, 80 column text on a CoCo 3 *needs* and RGB Analog
monitor....color composite or even monochrome just doesn't cut it. It
looks aweful and unreadable.