Re: Apple III peripherals

[tdiaz@coyote.csusm.edu (Tony Diaz)]

Randy Shackelford (shack@onyx.southwind.net) wrote:
> David Empson (dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:

> : > I have an Applecolor Monitor 100 and it says it works with ///s.

> No dude, the 100 is the digital RGB that Apple came out with in '85 or so. It
> requires the extended 80 column/RGB card or a RAMworks RGB add on for a //e,
> has the electric screen tilter, and came complete with a $600 price tag and
> $300 for the RGB interface. Consequently it, like the //c LCD screen, sold 
> like used bananas. Ironically the used hardware places like Shreve list it

I have an AppleColor 100 monitor hooked to the ///+ here. There is a switch
inside the monitor labeled 8/16 colors. Switch it and you get true colors 
on the Apple ///. Ever notice the upward 'tilt' on the bottom front of the
monitor, looks suspiciously like the Monitor /// and does infact match the 
Apple ///'s sloped up lid. Of course the monitor looks better on top
of a //e.  I have wondered if the Color 100 was another example of the ///
bail out... you know, ProDOS, AppleWorks.... Allthough a look in the back of
a 1982 SOS reference manual, at the Filetype chart, a few filetypes are marked
"ProDOS reserved" ProDOS didn't debut until Jan 1984. That book was written 
two years earlier. The Apple II suffered so much at the heals of the Apple
/// in so many small ways... The Apple //e, like the //c was slated for having
128K built in.. can't do that, would have more than the Apple /// at the time.

hmmm...

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