Re: Apple //c LCD Screen & SmartHome software.....

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article bjbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major & Dennis J. Gorin) writes...

>In article <10APR199702461419@vax2.concordia.ca>, spec@vax2.concordia.ca
>(Mitchell Spector) wrote:
>>     No one mentioned the C-Vue LCD display. It looks identical to the
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>One of the first replies to this thread was the mention of the C-Vue but

    I saw someone mention a VTech LCD display for the Laser (first I've
heard of it actually) but nothing about the C-Vue. Either the message
has yet to arrive or was lost, my newserver on this end is kind of flaky.

>I'm glad you brought it up anyhow because I didn't know about the stand
>required for viewing.

    Actually it's a two-piece stand. On base of the C-Vue itself is a
plastic hinged piece (allowing the display to stand 90 degrees straight
up, or tilted nearly all the way back or in-between), which docks onto
an affixed IIc stand. I've never seen one, but looking at my C-Vue, it
would appear it slid onto three square groves. The half of the stand
for the IIc was affixed by double sided tape, making it more or less
permanent (annoying if you wished to share the C-Vue with another IIc).

    Once I have my C-Vue operating, I'm going to have to think up a
suitable replacement for the stand (unless someone out there has a
C-Vue stand collecting dust that they'd like to donate to me ;)

>Also, the Apple LCD pictured in one of my third-party //c books does not
>show any fold-out stand at all, but a band that went around the //c body
>itself to hold it in place.  Thanks for the info!

    I think it had two little feet that folded out, that would essentially
wedge in-between the vertical grooves on the top of the Apple IIc. This
probably made it a bit flismy (and certainly not secure enough for you to
carry around) so that is probably why you saw a band around it in the book.

    Neither display was very portable (well, not without removing it first)
nor were they much in terms of viewability. I've not seen one working, but
I'll bet it's similar to a Nintendo Gameboy screen (those only have a
contrast dial control and need good light to see, and then only in certain
angles).

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca