Re: Two monitors on IIe

["Paul R. Santa-Maria" <paulrsm@ameritech.net>]

Kelly Petriew <kelly.petriew@sask1.com> 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...

What is your goal?  Do you want to have the same information on both
monitors?  If so, then you can use a splitter cable (Y cable) to drive both
a color and a monochrome monitor, for example, so you can look at whatever
monitor is more appropriate at the time.  I have done this; there was some
signal loss but the results were acceptable to me.

Do you want to see different information on the two monitors?  Sure, plug a
Videx 80-column card (or clone) into any slot EXCEPT slot three.  If you
plug any card into slot three that uses a slot three ROM (as do most cards
except for CPU cards--accelerators, Z80, etc) then it would interfere with
the IIe's 80 column firmware.  Heck, you could plug in several 80-column
cards into slots and hook a different monitor to each.  However, no
standard software supports this; you would have to write custom software to
use this setup.

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Paul R. Santa-Maria
Ann Arbor, Michigan  USA
paulrsm@ameritech.net