Re: Apple Color HiRes RGB Monitor

[matinata@hotmail.com (Ricardo M. Matinata)]

Lee Cremeans <lee@lcremeans.homeip.net> wrote in message news:<hYKdnfFEEJIeE8bdRVn-iQ@speakeasy.net>...
> Ricardo M. Matinata wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Does any one knows if this type of monitor (Apple Color HiRes RGB Monitor
> > 14"), usually sold with the Mac IIci, works with the IIGS ?
> > 
> 
> No, not without some severe hardware hacking. The IIgs uses NTSC or PAL 
> scan rates for its RGB monitor, and the frequencies are well below what 
> Mac monitors used (the 14" used the old Mac-standard 640x480@67Hz 
> timings, and only those timings -- back then, multiscan monitors were 
> still rare and expensive birds).
> ...
> 
> -lee

   Thank you for your answer.
   Well, I've already been thru CSA2FAQ before but I've decided to ask
about this Mac monitor due to a probably inconsistence in the Apple
History Museum site, which stands that this monitor is compatible with
IIgs. Nevertheless, i've had to be sure as it's easier to find the Mac
monitor these days...

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Ricardo