On Sat, 21 Jul 2012, BLuRry wrote:
There'll all over the place now. I dragged home four in June, 2 19" that could change from portrait to landscape, 2 17". The smaller ones worked, though one has a small crack in the screen which doesn't seem to affect use. One of the 19" doesnt' turn on, which is likely an easy thing to fix. The other 19" has an external power supply which was missing, and I've yet to dig one out to try it.On Friday, July 13, 2012 8:17:26 PM UTC-5, Ed wrote:I have an Apple iie platinum that I have resurrected. I have been able to obtain floppy drives, z/80 card and the new CFFA card. What I wiuld like to do is to improve the video to display on a newer LSD monitor. I have seen these devices on Ebay ( http://www.paradisearcadeshop.com/en/video-converters-and-tools/23-cga-vga-hd-video-converter.html ) and am curious if this would work to convert the output of the IIe. Or is there another converter/board that would be better to output to LCD monitor with VGA input. ThanksYou won't get much out of the composite port to improve on, because there's no way to get an S-Video signal due to the chroma and luma being combined in the signal generation. If you have access to a Ramworks III card with an RGB option then you could convert that to CGA or VGA.Haven't heard of newer LSD monitors, but I'm sure they're extremely colorful!
Having brought all those home, I decided it was time to fix or junk the 19" Acer I dragged home last spring, having found it sitting on the sidewalk of a busy street in front of a grocery store. So I opened it up and changed the electrolytic capacitors in the power supply and it works fine. Previously, it had sort of worked, but unreliably; it would often just show the Acer logo.
Too bad none of them do NTSC. I am not seeing LCD tv sets waiting on the sidewalk, though endless really large CRT tv sets.
I really wish I'd bought one of those boxes at a garage sale last summer that put out VGA but received regular analog tv. Tuner boxes for VGA monitors. I had been tempted, but no price. I couldn't see the use at the time, Canada was about to turn off analog tv. But if they had video input jacks, I can't remember, they would have been really useful as converters, use some of these LCD monitors with VCRs and the like.
Michael