>Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:07:12 -0800 >From: Virkkala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote: > >>> Just reading through some old Apple manuals; they all mention that you >>> should never drive more than 2 monitors to a Macintosh, even though most >>> have the ability to (with extra video cards)... any particular reason for >>> this? > >I used three monitors on a 7100 for over a year. I abandoned the 7100 not >because of any problems, but because it was just too slow for what I needed >to do. I now have two monitors hooked up to my PCI hybrid Mac. I'd like >another one, but the monitor I'd like to use is an old one that would not >work with either video card on my current MAChine.
Have you checked with Griffin Technology (http://www.griffintechnology.com) to see if they have an adapter that would let you hook it up? It might be expensive, but they seem to have an adapter for every conceivable monitor/video card combination. >I'm curious about the rule, "no more than two"... Because two monitors >seems, well, like one too few. I think any such limit is bogus. It wouldn't be the first time that Apple documentation had mistakes. When Apple first came out with the Mac II, they had sales reps hawking the things to big companies (Lockheed in my experience) and bragging about how one could connect up to six monitors and have a huge work space. Of course, back then, with the price of video cards and monitors it would have cost something like $50,000 to have six monitors... I ran my IIci with three monitors for quite some time, Thunder IV, Futura II and built-in video. However, I do have a vague memory of there being one Apple machine that had a firmware bug or something that limited the number of monitors it could use. It wasn't one of the main models though. That's a very vague memory. I'm disheartened to hear they've screwed this up in OSX (earlier posting). Here's something that Apple got so right more than fifteen years ago, and they can't even keep it working when they switch the OS. Of course, Apple never really touted this ability the way they should have either. I think clean and easy multiple monitor support is the kind of gee whiz thing that could have brought them some sales back when things were still teetering if they'd bothered to tell anyone about it. Say around '95 or so. Ah well. Of course, Jobs seems to think one monitor is all anyone needs and he should get to pick the size, so multiple monitor support probably wasn't a priority. Heck, the engineers probably had to sneak it into OSX. Jeff Walther -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
