ingemar@isy.liu.se (Ingemar Ragnemalm) (06/26/90)
pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) writes: >In article <2270.26820896@csc.anu.oz> pfr654@csc.anu.oz writes: >> However, I would be happy with a 9,10,11 or 12 inch screen which was 4 >or 8 >> bit colour or greyscale, in a compact Mac box [gee if it wasn't 9inches >> then we might have to design a new box shape! what a huge expense!] >I think the ideal basic Mac would be exactly the same shape as the Mac >Plus and SE but enlarged to hold a 12" monitor. Don't think "toaster," >think "portable color TV." Every time I mention this to an Apple person, >the answer is always something like, "We're really committed to the small >footprint." Is it really impossible to use the full front of the current "toaster" to fit a larger, standing screen? The high quality large TV monitor we got here is hardly deeper than a "toaster" Mac. I would expect a larger screen with even flatter tubes than the current "toaster" has. Slighly wider is one of the needs. It would be nice if you could fit a full line of text on a standing page - which you can't always do now! (I have only experienced that with MacWrite, but anyway...) Standing screen is rather a possibility, since the "toaster" already is "standing". -- Ingemar Ragnemalm Dept. of Electrical Engineering ...!uunet!mcvax!enea!rainier!ingemar .. University of Linkoping, Sweden ingemar@isy.liu.se
KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (06/27/90)
Why not use one of the new flat backlit LCD displays, then mount all the electronics behind it with the fdhd at the bottom? You could make the screen(?) orientation in portrait mode for a compact footprint and get a big display in a smaller box than the current clasic mac. No screen jitter either. Put the whole lot on a simple stand to get the height you want add and internal SID and modem and a slot. With a SE/30 mother board running at 25Mhz this machine would be a killer -- why not two versions a 16Mhz 68000 and a 25Mhx 68030. Discliamer: don't worry abut me I'm just rambling. Kevin Purcell ................................... kpurcell @ liverpool.ac.uk \ Surface Science \ Stepwise Refinement n. A sequence of kludges K, \ Liverpool University \ neither distinct or finite, applied to a program P \ Liverpool L69 3BX \ aimed at transforming it into the target program Q.