Re: NTSC Monitor Vs Apple IIgs' Monitor

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:45:24 GMT, pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
wrote:

>In article <ju5il15e7t9bpbg7llp68q14j1225uj5sl@4ax.com>,
>Jeff Blakeney  <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>> Just because a monitor that was designed to work with an NTSC signal
>> (colour or black and white) can display a CCIR monochrome signal does
>> not make calling the monitor an "NTSC monochrome monitor" or "NTSC
>> colour monitor" superfluous.  If it was designed to be an NTSC monitor
>> then it is an NTSC monitor regardless of whether it just might happen
>> to work with another signal.  Saying it is monochrome or colour just
>> lets people know what type of display you'll get.
>
>If it's a color monitor, such a specification makes sense.
>
>But if it's a b&w monitor accepting a composite video signal the pictire is
>different:  there are not many NTSC-only sich monitors.  Almost all of them
>are capable of accepting video signals of both NTSC and CCIR specifications.
>
>What brand and model number is your monochrome monitor?  A web search may
>reveal whether it's NTSC only or if it also is capable of accepting CCIR video.

The only monochrome monitor I have at present is an Apple Monitor //
(model number A2M2010).  I have used it with both the monochrome and
colour output from an NTSC model Apple II as well as the composite
video out from an NTSC VCR and got images.

As far as I know, this monitor was designed for use in North America
with the NTSC model of Apple II.  I have no idea if it will work with
the European PAL models or not.  It might accept a CCIR signal but
what model of Apple II outputs that?  None that I know of so if it
doesn't work with the PAL Apple IIs then calling it an NTSC monochrome
monitor makes sense to me as it will only work with the NTSC model of
Apple II.

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