mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick) (08/31/88)
["pardon me ma'am, do you have an operator's license for that Rhino?"] Here's an interesting little thing I found in the Cleveland Amiga User's Group newsletter "The Amiga GURU", August 1988. . . "Commodore announced on August 1st the introduction of the Viking 1, a 19 inch high-resolution monochrome monitor for the Amiga. . . The new monitor is a result of a joint development between Commodore and Moniterm, a leading manufacturer of high-resolution monitors. "The new Viking 1 monitor features 1008x800x2 bits resolution, 72 mhz pixel frequency and 56 Khz horizontal frequency. With it's 19.6 inch diagonal screen the monitor weighs 36 pounds. . . "The monitor will be available in late August, 1988 [from Moniterm]. . . and will have a suggested retail price of $1995. (this is from an official C-A press release) I gather that C-A is supplying Moniterm Hedly boards which they just stick inside their box. After looking a the Hedly monitor, while it's really sharp and all, it's just a bit too small, so I'm glad to see one of these big guys become available (especially since I'm spoiled by the Sun 19" monitors at work). happy hi-resing! -- *** mike (starship janitor) smithwick *** "You can fool some of the people all of the time, or all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool Mom". [disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]
papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) (08/31/88)
In article <14086@ames.arc.nasa.gov| mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick) writes: |Here's an interesting little thing I found in the Cleveland Amiga User's |Group newsletter "The Amiga GURU", August 1988. . . | |"Commodore announced on August 1st the introduction of the Viking 1, ^^^^^^^^ |a 19 inch high-resolution monochrome monitor for the Amiga. . . Very interesting since I have been using the original Viking monitor that Moniterm built for IBM RTs (dubbed the AED) for over three years mow. Moniterm later manufactured that monitor for the IBM RT, IBM PC and the Mac with various adapters for each machine. They all are top of the line monitors. Very sharp and nice. |The new monitor is a result of a joint development between Commodore and |Moniterm, a leading manufacturer of high-resolution monitors. |"The new Viking 1 monitor features 1008x800x2 bits resolution, 72 mhz |pixel frequency and 56 Khz horizontal frequency. With it's 19.6 inch |diagonal screen the monitor weighs 36 pounds. . . That's pretty much identical to the features of the original AED Viking 1. All in all a very good choice. -- Marco Papa 'Doc' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=