Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!dayton!meccts!meccsd!mecc!zeke!todd
From: todd@zeke.UUCP (Todd Burkey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SC1224 MONITOR-NEW STYLE
Message-ID: <123@zeke.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-Jan-87 18:05:48 EST
Article-I.D.: zeke.123
Posted: Sun Jan  4 18:05:48 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 5-Jan-87 06:47:53 EST
References: <870103013827.000015ED.AJZJ.MA@UMass>
Reply-To: todd@zeke.UUCP (Todd Burkey)
Organization: Zycad Corporation, St. Paul, Mn
Lines: 31

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....

I agree. We have been trying to find alternative monitors locally, and all
we have found so far is the Magnovox Analog monitor all of the AMIGA people
are switching over to. The newer Atari color monitors appear to have less
brilliance than the older ones, although they are no where near the poor
quality you get on an Amiga monitor (I have both the ST and an Amiga...and a
Mac, PC, CP/M system, etc...one good computer and a bunch of paper-weigths).
If you switch back to the old technique of using white text on a blue
background, the new monitors are easy to read, but I would rather see Atari
switch back to the old monitors. I do know of sales that have been lost
due to this problem.

>range and excessive contrast. Color values 222 and below are non-existant.
>We only have 512 colors to start with - now 192 are missing?! Check out the

Now this I haven't seen yet. I would hazard a guess that your local
distributor got in a bad batch, since the colors on our new monitors are all
there, just less crisp (at least on our distributors last shipment from
atari).

  Todd Burkey
  ..!meccts!mecc!zeke!todd

-- 
   -Todd Burkey
    ZYCAD Corporation
    ..!mecc!zeke!todd