Re: Two monitors on IIe

["M. J." <mgallop@ebicom.net>]

voice recognition and speech synthesis on a file://e????????? tell me
more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





"Hank Levinson" <hlevinsn@rci.rutgers.edu> wrote in message
news:8jkmhk$86m$1@amenti.rutgers.edu...
> Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> writes:
>
>
>
> >Kelly Petriew wrote:
>
> >> I thought I read something about driving two monitors from the same
> >> IIe.  Putting an extra 80-col card in slot 3... my memory is fuzzy (at
> >> best).
> >>
> >> Could someone point me in the direction of this information?  If I
> >> read it here, I've lost/deleted it...
> >>
> >> Thanks Very Much,
>
> >Unfortunately puting an extra 80 column card in slot 3 doesn't work
> >for the same reasons you can't use most other cards in slot 3 when
> >you have a card in the Auxiliary slot. Even if it did you'd only get
> >video output when the IIe was in 80 column mode. One of the
> >exceptions is the Second Sight card which works fine in slot 3 but
> >it doesn't do well with Double Hi-Res and at least in my case, a lot of
> >stuff I use is Double Hi-Res. Another better way to have 2 monitors
> >is to get an Auxilary slot 80 column card with RGB output. I'm using
> >the RamWorks with RGB option.
>
> >    Wayne
>
> I don't see what all the fuss is about. I used a simple Y-cable to run an
> ordinary green screen monitor and a transparency-type LCD with an overhead
> projector for my class while I was lecturing. It worked perfectly. You can
> make the Y-cable yourself. Just use two male RCA cables joined shielding
> to shielding and center coaxial wire to its counterpart. (Cut off the
extra
> male plug and be sure the modifications are well insulated: no conductance
> between shielding and center wire.)
>
> My lectures had good demonstrations, and my students stopped ragging me
about
> "apples having 'worms'" as soon as I used a voice recognition card and
Echo
> card to talk to my IIe and have it reply. But that's another story...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dr. H. Levinson
> (aka St. Nick)