jmpiazza@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Joseph M. Piazza) (09/29/89)
I will soon be ordering a Mac IIx here at work. While the Apple
(Sony) color monitor looks great, I would like to have more connection options,
in particular, being able to use it on an Amiga (NTSC 640 X 400
interlaced; VGA freqs? 640 x 480 non-interlace).
The best guide so far I've come across is in October's MacUser in an ad
by Truevision (video card) that shows a bunch of monitors including a
Sony 1271 (756x486 NTSC interlaced), and a Sony 1302 (1024x768 interlaced).
By comparison there's the "Apple" 640x480 non-interlaced.
Any of these do the job? At what kind of prices?
Any other suggestions?
And how about a cable for the Mac II? (a cable for the Amiga would
be nice too but it can wait).
As always, please respond via e-mail and I summarize and post.
Thanks,
joe piazza
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From article <11079@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, by jmpiazza@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Joseph M. Piazza): > > The best guide so far I've come across is in October's MacUser in an ad > by Truevision (video card) that shows a bunch of monitors including a > Sony 1271 (756x486 NTSC interlaced), and a Sony 1302 (1024x768 interlaced). > By comparison there's the "Apple" 640x480 non-interlaced. > > Any of these do the job? At what kind of prices? We are using Sony CPD-1302's here with our Amigas (refuse to buy CBM monitors) and are very pleased. Currently one of the Amiga's has a filcker fixer, the other two do not. The 1302 works extremely well with all three. I'm not positive, but I think the price was $459.00 ( don't have copies of the PO's with me...) > > Any other suggestions? Nope... > > And how about a cable for the Mac II? (a cable for the Amiga would > be nice too but it can wait). > The local CBM dealer made all the necessary cables, plus one for our 37" Mitubishi monitor. Note: we haven't used the Sony's with a Mac yet, but did have the dealer make a cable for the Mitubishi and it works fine. > .... > joe piazza > > CS Dept. SUNY at Buffalo 14260 > UUCP: ..!{ames,boulder,decvax,rutgers}!sunybcs!jmpiazza GEnie:jmpiazza > BITNET: jmpiazza@sunybcs.BITNET Internet: jmpiazza@cs.Buffalo.edu Art Mercer Associate Director Academic Computing Resources Wright State University Dayton, OH (513)-873-4038
roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (10/03/89)
In <11079@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> jmpiazza@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Joseph M. Piazza):
> I will soon be ordering a Mac IIx here at work.
Just out of curiousity, why do you want to buy a IIx? As far as I
can tell, the IIcx is an identical processor, costs less, and takes up less
desk space. The only reason I can see to buy the IIx is because you want
more than 3 expansion slots, but I'm hard pressed to figure out what you
would put in them. Obviously, 1 slot is for a video card, a second might
be for ethernet, and you still have one slot for some sort of special
purpose co-processor (lisp machine, graphics processor, etc). Beyond that,
I just don't see what you might want to put in a Mac.
I'm not flaming you for your choice, I'm just curious.
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