Apple Questions

From: Stephen Dauphin <ai705_at_osfn.org>
Date: Mon Sep 28 17:00:05 1998

> >Second, I got a few monitors that say Apple III on them. I had thought
> >these were for the Apple III computers; is this so, and/or were they also
> >used for other Apple computers?

On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, John Rollins wrote in response to the above:

> I've got one of those. Pretty nice looking monitor. One would have to
> assume that they were orginally meant for the Apple III, but it's never
> smart to assume anything with old computers... It's no an Apple III-only
> type of thing, just a normal composite monitor.

It is a normal green screen composite monitor that can be hooked up to
most composite outputs. There was a special all plastic stand, sort of
like a tiny step stool or one of those exercise steps, that straddles an
Apple II and is the proper width for the III monitor. An Apple III
computer has a blocky aluminum case and the monitor sits directly on top.
I would guess they had a lot of theose Apple III monitors after the
Apple III fiasco and the little stand allowed them to fob them off with
Apple IIe purchases.

> that DB-15->DB-15 video cable for the Apple RGB monitor?).

Standard pass through cable. A Belkin brand Macintosh monitor cable,
available at any Comp USA, will do fine. Although the cable will work for
either monitor, Mac and Apple IIgs RGB monitors cannot be used
interchangably on either machine.


                                             -- Stephen Dauphin
Received on Mon Sep 28 1998 - 17:00:05 BST