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From: jack@cod.UUCP (Jack M. Zyphur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SC1224 MONITOR-NEW STYLE
Message-ID: <455@cod.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Jan-87 14:23:45 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  6 14:23:45 1987
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Reply-To: jack@cod.UUCP (Jack M. Zyphur)
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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In article <9999@cgl.ucsf.edu.ucsfcgl.UUCP> pett@socrates.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Eric Pettersen) writes:
>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

I have been using an NEC Multisync with the ST for 6 mos. now with great
success. You will, however, have to build your own cable (the connectors
are the hard part). I even added a rotory switch box in the middle of my
cable which provides the following:
   position 1. Low and medium resolution color.
   position 2. Grounds the "monochrome detect" pin on the ST and applies
		the video signal to all three color inputs to give
		High resolution monochrome.
   position 3. As above but uses only the green input giving a
		High resolution green display.
   position 4. Directs input from another computer to the monitor (i.e.
		an EGA board in my IBM clone).
These monitors ain't cheep but they look better (to me) than even the
original ST monitors (with all the money tied up in the NEC it "must"
look better). You can even expand the raster somewhat using the standard
controls on top of the NEC to get rid of most of the border. It doesn't
have a built in speaker though, but after the warranty runs out you can
stick one in the monitor.
					Jack at NOSC

"Its parameters are nondeterministic, but we have determined that 40 is
 a safe number." Allen Pratt, Atari Corp.