I do have at least one Apple IIc monitor around here, the small green-screen as originally sold with the machine. Not sure where you're located, but if it's practical, I'd certainly consider taking a trade for it.
As for generic older crt, I am very fond of my BMC green screen, ca. 1982 or so. It's built on a 12" b&w TV platform, you can see all of the vestigial features of a television case. Pretty sure it's just a standard b&w TV, rebadged and fitted with a fairly hi-res green crt and no tuner. Takes a single comp. video into an RCA on the back panel which previously held some controls or possibly the antenna base. I've been meaning to add a speaker and small (LM386?) audio amp so it can do sound as well. Should be easy, there's a speaker mount pattern already in the case and it seems that one should be able to derive an acceptable +5-12V rail from one of the low-voltages on the board. My only gripe is that the thing lacks a pilot lamp, and lacking input, you can't tell if the power is on. So I stuck an orange LED on the front panel with the old zener / 1n4007 / 10K trick. On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Ed via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > yes stacked back in the back area behid other tonnage there are lots > of these square cabinet monitors both color and B/W all various > sized > many names sony Panasonic jvc and more. Wish I had these when I had > my apple... they were expensive, especially the color cube broadcast > monitors. > > I could never bring myself to ever toss any of them. > > the stuff I used with the apple 2 I had were old b/w conrac > monitors with tubes in them! > > I had other friends that had converted TV's so the TV would accept > straight composite video thus giving a sharper image than stuff run > though modulators. > > I need to match some of these up with some early video switchers > for remote trucks for a display and a few to save for computers but > at > some point we will probably cut 20 or 30 them loose or so. ed# > > > > > > > In a message dated 8/22/2017 4:23:13 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, > cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: > > I suggest that you keep your eyes open for a small CRT-based CCTV monitor. > Possible sources include eBay, Craigslist, Goodwill, etc., as well as > folks on lists like this one. > > I've been looking for an old Sanyo VM-4209 or VM-4509 monochrome monitor > for a while, to put on my SOL-20. One of those would be Just Right for the > SOL-20, as well as for an early Apple II series machine. The few I've seen > have been in poor shape, yet listed for RARE L@@K STEVE JOBS prices. I > recently found a younger monitor via Goodwill. It's about a decade too > new to be > Just Right for my SOL-20, but it at least has similar boxy styling to the > monitor I'd really like. Newer monitors like that are a lot less rare, and > still tend to have more reasonable prices. Something like that might suit > your needs well. > > Now, you say you want a color monitor. I think that similar color CCTV > monitors are even more commonly available. I haven't been paying close > attention to them since I've been looking for a specific monochrome > monitor, but I > think I've seen various color ones bouncing off my brain's spam filters. I > think that one of the small, boxy, color CRT CCTV monitors might look > quite nice with your IIc. > > -- > Mark J. Blair, NF6X <n...@nf6x.net> > http://www.nf6x.net/ > >
