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- From: wmagro@uiuc.edu (William Magro)
- Subject: Re: Recommended Falcon monitor?
- References: <108007@bu.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:06:42 GMT
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- In article <108007@bu.edu> selick@csa.bu.edu (Steven Selick) writes:
- >
- >What is/will be the recommended monitor for the Falcon (if/when it
- >becomes available to me) to be able to use all of the screen solutions
- >in all of the colors, and in a reasonably crisp manner? I'm hoping that
- >the answer isn't a $1200 monitor from Atari (the price I'm hoping the
- >Falcon will cost with 4 megs and a 65 meg hard drive). Will there be
- >support for other lower cost monitors that, perhaps, the IBM community
- >has been using for years and I might find used for $3-$400 US? Also,
- >they (Sam Tramiel in Boston in October) said that the Falcon could
- >display sm124 monichrome mode on a color monitor. Is the SM1224
- >acceptable for this, or are they speaking of some $600 multi-sync
-
- I saw a falcon running the ST high mode on an SC1224. Frankly, it just
- didn't cut it. The dot pitch of the SC1224 is just too coarse to display
- this mode. On a .28mm VGA monitor, monochrome should look just fine. If
- you've ever seen a regular mac II, it's black text on white background is
- what 640x480 on a .25 dotpitch trinitron looks like. More than adequate.
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