Re: Apple monitor with WinPC?

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

Mike Pfaiffer wrote:

>Turning the question around about using a PC monitor on an Apple would be 
>more useful to people here. There is a card available (Second Sight) 
>which allows an Apple to use the monitor. If you can find one it is a 
>cheaper alternative to replacing a burnt out Apple style monitor.

A SecondSight card costs about ten to twenty times as much as an
Apple II monitor, monochrome, composite color, or RGB!

If the problem is a monitor for an Apple II or IIgs, check thrift stores
first ($5 typically), then check eBay since they can be had for shipping
cost ($15-$25, depending on distance).  Because shipping dominates,
they never sell for much, and many are discarded.

Now if anyone knows of an inexpensive external box to convert
a composite input to VGA scan standards, THAT would be interesting.
(Most converters convert VGA to composite--wrong way!)

-michael

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