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Re: SC1224 MONITOR-NEW STYLE

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From: Eric Pettersen%CGL
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1987 06:50
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In article <870103013827.000015ED.AJZJ.MA@UMass> RNEWTON@UMass.BITNET writes:
>Feedback please.  We have recently been trying to add more color 1040ST
>systems here at UMASS and have made a depressing discovery - the new-style
>SC1224 color monitor is seriously inferior to its predecessor.  ...
>................ Can anyone recommend another monitor and advise on ways
>to connect it to the 1040?  And perhaps its time to boycott these cheap
>replacements we're being offered?  Atari says the specs are the same -
>let your eyes be the judge.  If you've never seen the old type, find one
>and compare.  You'll be shocked. (and then realize you've been had!)
>   Rick Newton, Digital Photographic Service, UMass, Amherst

Yes, feedback please!  I am contemplating purchasing a color monitor and
am not looking forward to being disappointed (my friend has an early color
monitor).  Is it true that the problem is mainly that the monitor is not
adjusted correctly in the factory (or false)?  What *are* the alternatives?

				Eric Pettersen
				UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
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Subject: Re: SC1224 MONITOR-NEW STYLE
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