Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekig5.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!caip!topaz!packard!hoxna!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekig3!tekig5!johnbl From: johnbl@tekig5.UUCP (John Blankenagel) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga impressions et al Message-ID: <292@tekig5.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 17:56:41 EST Article-I.D.: tekig5.292 Posted: Tue Oct 29 17:56:41 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 02:40:36 EST References: <708@othervax.UUCP> <41000003@iuvax.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 23 > > Strange that the Amiga's main deficiency is it's inability to > display readable 24x80 text. Huh, the one I use displays very good 80x24 text. > Has anyone tried hooking up a (sin of sins) > a black and white monitor to the Amiga or is it impossible? > > James E. Conley Usenet: {ihnp4,pur-ee,purdue}!iuvax!jec Yes, I have hooked a NEC JB-902M(A) with p31 (green) phosphor and composite video input to the amiga. The video quality was about the same as the 1070 monitor except that the screen was only 9" diagonal so it was marginally better looking in some cases. I also hooked it up to a 5" Motorola composite video monitor and it still looked quite good. The text was easily readable if you got close to the monitor. A person could very easily do a lot of real work on non-color-graphics programs with just a cheap (relatively) composite-video monochrome monitor. It is certainly not as interesting though in my opinion because I like color for most anything I do. John Blankenagel