Re: Color Composite monitor for platinum IIe

["Charlie" <charlie@newsguy.com>]

"Matthew S. Carpenter" <superpsycho@comcast.net> wrote in message 
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> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>> Lyrical Nanoha wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Matthew S. Carpenter wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've been getting stuff for a bare platinum Apple IIe I picked up
>>>> recently and just got to thinking.... the only color composite monitors
>>>> I have are rather deep and really wont look right sitting on the
>>>> platinum IIe.  I can deal with it for now... but things like that do
>>>> tend to annoy me after a while. Did Apple make a color composite 
>>>> monitor
>>>> that looks like it was meant to match with the platinum IIe?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sure did, had one.
>>
>>
>> But it, too, was pretty deep.
>>
>> The AppleColor Composite monitor for the //e was 14" deep.
>> Most color monitors have narrow deflection angles relative
>> to monochrome monitors, because of the need to minimize
>> aberrations with the larger tri-beam bundle.
>>
>> If the monitor is placed so that the screen plane is near
>> the place where the //e top flattens out (as is common with
>> monochrome monitors), it projects six inches further back
>> than the //e, which is rather deep itself.  Of course, if
>> you have any large-cabled devices plugged into your //e,
>> they will take up 3"-4" behind it, even turning sharply.
>>
>> Bottom line, there are no "shallow" color CRT monitors
>> relative to their screen size.  They will be at least
>> as deep as their screen size, and sometimes deeper.
>>
>
> Oh, I should have worded better... I'm refering to the bottom of the 
> monitor that would actually sit on the IIe.... the monitors I have would 
> have two of their rubber feet sitting off the IIe in back, so they 
> wouldn't nessesarily be sitting very stabily...  as long as  the monitor 
> actually fits on the IIe properly(and preferably has a same color case as 
> the platinum IIe), that's what I'm looking for.

I have an Apple ColorMonitor IIe #A2M2056. It accepts the IIe composite 
video.  It has a base that is about 8 inches deep and 14.5 inches wide so it 
sits perfectly on a beige IIe or a Duodisk #A9M0108.  I don't know if the 
Platinum IIe is the same size.
This is a great monitor.  It displays sharp 80 column text and it has the 
Black and White / Color switch.

Charlie