User`s guide

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From: Rubywand
027- Do I need to connect a monochrome monitor to my IIe
to get readable 80-column text?
Maybe not. Try turning down the "Color" control to get a B/W display and
adjusting Brightness and Contrast. This will, possibly, make 80-column text
readable on your composite color monitor. Just how readable will depend upon the
particular monitor. On the popular Amdek Color-1, readability is marginal at
best. According to some user reports, readability is decent on Apple's composite
color monitor.
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From: Michael J. Mahon
Regarding the above ...
First, turning down the color control will do nothing to increase the bandwidth
of the luminance circuits, so the improvement in detail will be negligible. The
only possible improvement is from decreasing any additional blur from the low
bandwidth chroma signal.
Second, it is not just "some user reports" that the AppleColor //e and //c
Composite monitor is fully 80-column-capable. This is a very special monitor
which switches the the luminance channel to high bandwidth when the color killer
is on, or when the "monochrome" switch on its front panel is pressed.
Of course, there is still a shadow mask, so the characters are not as "fully
formed" as with a pure monochrome monitor, but the monochrome resolution is good
enough to make it the only monitor required on even a "mostly text" machine.
To my knowledge, there are no other composite color monitors that have this
feature. I think it deserves some credit!
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From: Jim Krych ([e-mail])
028- Is there a high-quality replacement for RGB
monitors?
Yes. It's called the "VideoTurtle." (What follows comes from a Video Turtle
advertisement.)
The VideoTurtle is a product that converts your RGB signal, known as TV
RGB-15.75KHz scan rate for NTSC, into S-Video! S-Video is an enhanced form of
TV with better clarity and resolution than the "TV" we are all familiar with.
With your computer, the VideoTurtle, and an S-Video equipped TV, you get
equal or better display quality, than your old RGB monitor. Not only that, you
get a much bigger and eye-pleasing display, and a TV to boot!