Re: Apple Color HiRes RGB Monitor

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

mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote in message news:<20040320133341.26082.00000074@mb-m23.aol.com>...
> 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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BTW, great work about the Apple History ! 
To solve this puzzle, how many Apple monitors work with the IIgs ?
According to the Apple History site, there are two: the AppleColor RGB
monitor and the Apple Color HiRes RGB monitor  (the MacII's one i've
been talking about).

-Ricardo