Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mfci!hsi!archer
From: archer@hsi.UUCP (Garry Archer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: //e Color Composite Monitors
Summary: IIc Colour Composite Monitor
Message-ID: <206@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 88 14:02:02 GMT
References: <4114@watvlsi.waterloo.edu> 
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Organization: Health Systems Intl., New Haven, CT
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In article , joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) writes:
> The Apple mornitor is a special relatively high resolution hybrid
> monitor that does a good job at both 80 column text and color.
> 
> Your choices are:
> 
> 1: B+W monitor for text plus TV and RF mod for color
> 2: B+W Monitor for text plus composite color monitor 
> 3: Apple's Color composite monitor for both
> 4: An Apple //e RGB board and an RGB monitor.
> 
> They go from lowest quality/cost to highest, with #3 being the most
> common solution.


For what it's worth:

Since 1984 when I purchased my Apple IIc and the Apple Monitor IIc (monochrome)
I have been wanting to buy a good quality RGB monitor.  However, as a family
man and home owner, justifying the $600+ was never easy and I resisted the
temptation all of these years.  This year, I decided to do something about
getting a colour monitor.  I couldn't afford an RGB set-up, but I kept 
reading how good Apple's Colour Composite monitors were, i.e. the latest
technology gave them good enough resolution to allow good colour composition
but also be sharp enough for text processing.  So off I went to my local
Apple dealer with a couple of my own games to test on such a monitor.  I was
pleasantly surprised.  Apple's RGB hooked up to a IIgs was $599 (a typical
price for the average quality RGB I suppose) and the Colour Composite hooked
up to a Apple IIc+ was listed as $399.  The sales lady, seeing my indecision
said she could let me have it for $379 (wow, big deal, huh?).  In the end,
although $379 was more than I expected to pay, I plunked it down on my
Apple Credit Card (OK, so I pay interest on it too...)

I have to say that the Colour Composite is more than adequate for my needs.
In fact, because its a bigger screen (12" I think) than my 9" Monitor IIc,
text processing, even in 80 column mode, is better!  So here ends the tale
of a happy customer.

Hope this helps.  I'm not associated with Apple Computer, Inc. and
therefore all standard disclaimers apply.
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		Garry Archer Esq.	{noao, yale, uunet}!hsi!archer
		Health Systems International
		New Haven, CT  06511		U.S.A.