Does anyone know/have a 9-inch CRT monitor that supports Apple II color graphics and 80-column text? I have a 9-inch color monitor, but it does not support 80-col text. I also have a Color Monitor IIe that works great - color graphics and 80-col text, but it is a 12 or 13 inch display. I like the old-school look of having the monitor and 2 Disk II drives on top of the Apple II case and need 80-col support. I know I could use an LCD screen, but it does not provide the old-school system look.
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Composite color monitor? Crt? Youd be hard pressed to find one smaller than 12 inches.
My advice get a small 9 inch color crt tv with composite inputs. I bought a 9 inch rca color tv/vcr combo for $15.00 at a tag sale. It does composite and it has a coaxial input so i use it on vintage hardware that is rf only.
I think that you missed the 80 column text requirement. A television will not have the mask needed to allow crisp 80c text.
That is not a composite CRT!!! that is the difference! That is an LED or LCD display...?!?!?
He wants something appropriate for the era.
I will try to find a list of display models that meet this criteria, as this is also something that I want, although I want even smaller displays for modding an Apple II into an SX64, I would not kicj an 8 to 9 inch colour 80 col CRT out of bed, by any means.
There were some oddball studio monitors that fit this criteria, but I need to find their model numbers. I ordered a PELCO PMC9 to see if it can do 80c. and when it arrives in two to four weeks, I will respond.
Sorry, I misread the post.
Here is a general rundown of the Pelco. There are other models in this series that are all nine inch studio displays. The PMC901 is similar, but IDK if it auto-detects PAL/NTSC, while the 9A does. There is a ten-inch version, the PMC10A, that is also a good display. Note that the PMC part of the model number decodes as Pelco Monitor Colour. Monochrome versions have PMM* as their model, where the second M is for Monochrome.
Thus you have PM ( M | C ) ( Numeric Size ) ( Submodel )
Again, I will report on how the 80 column text looks from a //e, and perhaps also on a standard Videx. While these do not have a monochrome button, they should allow tuning out colour fringes if you want, and if you want to go one step further., you could put a switch on the colour circuit inside the ][.
What nine inch monitor do you have at present?
Right now, my 9-inch color monitor is a PANSONIC BT-S900Y 9" COLOR VIDEO MONITOR. My B&W monitor I use for 80-col text is a Sanyo VM-4509.
I sadly do not see any spec sheet on a quick search, so IDK the resolution and pitch, nor the capabilities of the Panasonic BT series, other than that it is 8.5 inches and had SVideo and BNC in. I am not sure if this was made for broadcasting or live feed, or something else.
Try a Sony Trinitron. You are probably lookng something from an TV station or industrial application. If memory serves they made some 9" pnes. Probably more like 1983 and beyond, not pre 1980 as I recall. The 80 column text wont be perfect because of the way the color is generated on an Apple, but it will be about as good as you are going to get and way better than any TV.
I was able to find a spec sheet on my Panasonic 9-inch color monitor
https://videoindex.ru/pdf/10910.pdf
It has composite RCA and S-Video inputs and Horizontal Resolution of more than 300 TV lines. I know this is not good enough for 80-col text. A quick search on eBay for a 9-inch Sony Trinitron monitor found this model: Sony PVM-8022Q. Looks nice and appears to have been built in 2000. I could not find a spec sheet on this monitor. Thanks for everyone's input. For now, I will continue to switch between using my Sanyo WM-4509 and Apple Color Monitor IIe when using my Apple II Plus.
You will have to get a professional PVM Sony or similar, any professional monitor (broadcast quality) should work. The downside is that they get pretty expensive.