Re: Apple Color HiRes RGB Monitor

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Ricardo M. Matinata wrote:

>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...

Since Steve is so meticulous, I suspect the inconsistency is in
the Apple nomenclature.  Apple used very similar and confusing
names for many of their monitors.

I suspect that when they started, they didn't expect to make more
than a few monitor types, but then the number exploded and the
non-numeric model naming "scheme" became a liability.

For example, "AppleColor" and "Apple Color" are different, and
the _entire_ title of the monitor is needed to obtain uniqueness.
If you drop the "HiRes" from your monitor's name and merge
"AppleColor", it's the monitor designed for the IIgs...

-michael

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