Re: Recommended Falcon monitor?

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From: William Magro
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:06

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In article <108007@bu.edu> selick@csa.bu.edu (Steven Selick) writes:
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>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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William Magro                                       NeXTMail welcome
wmagro@uiuc.edu

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