SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (06/16/87)
I took the easy (and less expensive) way out and bought an Apple monitor //e (40 column color and 80 column, hi-res monochrome) partly because Apple and RGB got too puzzling. IBM-PC RGB monitors evidently don't use the same signals as Apple RGB boards generate. Video-7 makes a board (add-on device) that changes Apple RGB output to IBM monitor compatible. I've seen some monitors that advertise a switch or other internal (maybe special cable) for either Apple or IBM. A friend of mine got a nice deal on an Apple 80 column card with an RGB plug that turned out not to be compatible with anything except the (very expensive) Apple brand RGB monitor. Video-7 did have a Mappler for it however (must be like the //c's RGB output which doesn't seem to just plug into a monitor but needs something -- a Mappler //c? -- added in order to work). The long and the short of it is ask a lot of questions about just which RGB monitors you can plug into the chip for the AE card. The IIgs's analog RGB monitor definately won't work.