stone@hydra.unm.edu (Andrew Stone CS.DEPT) (04/09/89)
What does the net know about the disadvantages of the currently marketed 19" B&W or GreyScale monitors for the MacII? I know the "Advantages" [sack full of colored paper from Expo], I was wondering more about software incompatibilities etc. For example, can you run multifinder, can you use the 13" color monitor simultaneously, does HyperCard run, refreshes are miserably slow (they skimped on video memory),terrible software or service, or anything else that you have noticed? If you have one of the SuperMac, Nutmeg, Sigma Design, PCPC, E-machine, Radius or some other monitor, could you spare the time to give me a little feedback? E-mail me, and I'll post a summary. Thank you, andrew ||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<<??>>||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>|| !! Andrew Stone !! the fictive milieu of !! !! stone@hydra.unm.edu <> contemporary society! !! ||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<<??>>||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||
kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) (04/11/89)
In article <4802@charon.unm.edu> stone@hydra.unm.edu (Andrew Stone CS.DEPT) writes:
<What does the net know about the disadvantages of the currently
<marketed 19" B&W or GreyScale monitors for the MacII?
<I know the "Advantages" [sack full of colored paper from Expo], I was wondering
<more about software incompatibilities etc. For example, can you run multifinder
Most of the people at FileNet have large monitors. They started with Megascreen
on SEs. When I came they had graduated to Mac IIs and because of a SNAFU with
the dealer and bad Megascreen boards, we ended up with E-Machines. Because
the resolution is higher than most (85 dpi), the characters are much smaller
but they are crisp and mostly readable. 10 point Times on just about anything
looks horrible. The Adobe fonts help quite a bit here.
I run MultiFinder all the time (I couldn't imagine life without it -:)
During the violent earthquake that was centered here the other day, I had
two Word documents and one SuperPaint document open. I held the Monitor
down during the shaking and quickly saved all three documents as soon as
it stopped. (Try to think of a new document name at a time like that.)
The E-Machine monitor has had no incompatibilities that I've discovered.
Scroll speed must be 2 or more times better than the 13" color monitor I had
to use before the E-Machine came.
Many people like Radius, but there are some incompatibilities. I don't
remember what they are, but many people on the net have talked about these.
I know the people with Megascreen can't use Quickeys, which I consider
about as essential as MultiFinder. (Well, actually, I haven't built any
new Quickeys since I started using MacroMaker.)
The monitor I'm waiting for is the new E-Machines Z-21 that has four
resolutions and lets you adjust the focus without taking the monitor
apart. Actually it's the card for the SE/30 that I'm waiting for. They
said last week that it was due to be shipped April 24. One word of
warning: once you get used to working on a large monitor, you feel like
one hand is tied behind your back when you have to go back to the small
screen.
Shirley Kehrzeke@wilbur.unix.ETA.COM (Robert K. Scott) (04/12/89)
In article <4802@charon.unm.edu>, stone@hydra.unm.edu (Andrew Stone CS.DEPT) writes: > What does the net know about the disadvantages of the currently > marketed 19" B&W or GreyScale monitors for the MacII? > > ... Stuff deleted ... > > > ||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<<??>>||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>|| > !! Andrew Stone !! the fictive milieu of !! > !! stone@hydra.unm.edu <> contemporary society! !! > ||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<<??>>||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>|| I'm trying to track a problem down right now with my new Mac IIcx and a Radius Two Page Display (monochrome). I also have an Ethernet board installed, and have seen some very strange behaviour that went away when I took the Radius Init/Cdev out of the system folder. My screen was freezing, even in Finder, and it appears that when the Radius init was installed the NCSA Telnet program was bombing during initialization. I was also getting some "Program xxx terminated unexpectedly" messages while running Multifinder and the Radius Init. Think I'll just keep to PYRO and my other INITS, thank you very much. Love the display, but hate the software (at least I hate the implementation, the idea of the software is great.) -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Extra zesty disclaimer: MINE! MINE! ALL MINE! <chortle snort froth drool> Robert K. "Zeke" Scott internet: zeke@sunfun.eta.com voice: (612) 642-3493 uucp: {amdahl,rutgers}!bungia!eta!sunfun!zeke snail: ETA Systems, Inc. ETC03J, 1450 Energy Park Drive, St. Paul, MN 55108