Re: Making a colour IIc 9" monitor from Mac Color Classic

[Eric Smith <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com>]

"Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@alumni.NO.SPAM.PLEASE.uwaterloo.ca> writes:
> I just picked up a Mac Color Classic today which appears to be dead except
> for the CRT.  I see that it has a 9" viewable region, much like a IIc's
> monitor.  Any hope of me replacing the IIc's mono CRT with the Color
> Classic's CRT to yield a colour IIc monitor,

No.

> or are the
> electronics/frequencies hopeless different?

Yes.

The high voltage supply of the monochrome monitor doesn't generate
a high enough second anode voltage for the color tube.  And you can't
use the HV supply from the Mac Color Classic because it depends on
a higher vertical scan rate than the IIc produces.

It's one of those things that's theoretically possible if you do enough
work and buy enough parts, but it will take a *lot* of time and cost
more than buying yourself a suitable color monitor.