Re: Apple IIGS with Mac (or PC) monitor?

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <acaldwell-0208961233070001@atl90.avana.net>,
Andrew <acaldwell@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
>Is it possible to attach a MAG Innovision monitor (currently connected to
>both a Mac and a PC) to an old Apple IIGS with the right adapters? or can
>you only use the standard Apple RGB monitor?

   Not unless you want to send it back for repairs sooner than normal
(the MAG MXP17F I bought a year ago has been sent in for repairs twice
and replaced twice. The first replacement lasted for 4 hours (two of
those hours were with it off- the second time I turned it on, it was
dead) hooked up to my pentium box. If you think some of my flames
online are nasty, I hear they had to replace most of the phone system
at MAG after that :)

   Seriously though, Mac and PC monitors except for really old ones
like the NEC Multisync 1 or 2, cannot display the horizontal refresh
frequencies the GS puts out of its video port in back: 15 Hz vs
30Hz. You could connect a cable between the two, but the MAG would
die.  The solution, though, is the Second Sight VGA board from
Sequential (http://www.sequential.com). It lets you hook up a normal
VGA monitors to your GS. 

Nathan Mates

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