bh11+@andrew.cmu.edu (Braddock John Hathaway) (10/28/89)
I have an extra monochrome monitor that I bought with my mac II and is now the remnant of an upgrade. I've been thinking of selling it, but I just noticed a line in our computer store's price list that reads "Video Card (Mac II 1bit)" . . . and the price is even reasonable! I'd be interested in running two monitors on my machine (after all, it would practically double my workspace), especially if I can do it for the price that they listed ($131+tax). Can I do what I want using this card? Does anyone have one (a video card) that they would like to sell for less than our computer store? What software do I need in order to accomplish my objective? Any responses would be appreciated. Thanks, Brad
orchard@tybalt.caltech.edu (John Orchard) (10/29/89)
In article <wZGC3=K00WBKA2zUx6@andrew.cmu.edu> bh11+@andrew.cmu.edu (Braddock John Hathaway) writes: > > I'd be interested in running two monitors on my machine >(after all, it would practically double my workspace), especially if >I can do it for the price that they listed ($131+tax). Can I do what >I want using this card? Does anyone have one (a video card) that they >would like to sell for less than our computer store? What software do >I need in order to accomplish my objective? > >Brad I've done this a couple of times, and even had three monitors on at once for a little while. Its easy. Just put the video card in one of the empty slots and plug in your extra monitor. No extra software needed; the Monitors cdev should handle it all automatically. When you reboot, go into the Control Panel into the Monitors cdev. It should show two screens there, like little rectangles with numbers on them, #1 for monitor number 1, and #2 for two. You can slide around the monitors in the electronic "space" to form an uninterrupted workspace of whatever config you want--top and bottom, side by side, whatever. You can also drag the menu bar to whichever screen you want, and you can get the "happy face" screen by command-option (I think) when you first go to the cdev.(The happy face shows which screen gets the "welcome to macintosh" screen when you boot). It's really cool when you finally reboot and play around with your new huge desktop. One word of warning: it is pretty easy to "lose" your cursor when moving around all these monitors. How and where did I get to mess around with this? Well, I was the Tyrant of Timbuktu Testing at Farallon before I left to come to grad school. So we had to test tb2 3.0 with all sorts of weird configurations. And don't even *ask* me about file transfer! :-) John Orchard orchard@tybalt.caltech.edu OR jto@pooh.caltech.edu