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From: johnbl@tekig5.UUCP (John Blankenagel)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga impressions et al
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Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 17:56:41 EST
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> 	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