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Re: Atari SC1435 Monitor on the Apple IIgs?

On Wednesday, April 3, 2013 7:50:00 AM UTC-4, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> On 04/02/2013 10:23 PM, nyder wrote:
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> >> Tell that to the Commodore 1084 monitor I smoked by selecting an
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> >> ill-advised
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> >> scan rate on an Amiga 1200.  Incredible, but true.
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> > Really?  wow, did you put it in a VGA/SVGA mode?   I've got some weird
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> > resoultions going on my 1084's & 1200 back in the day, but I don't think
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> > I've ever gone over 400 vertical scan lines with that monitor.
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> Yup.  I selected a VGA resolution and pushed "Apply".  There was a moment of 
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> scrambled display followed by a couple of couple of loud ticks and... that's 
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> all she wrote.  Dead flyback transformer.
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> Steve
Damn, I didn't know that was possible.  That's a bit scary. :)