>>>>Is there a list of what monitor sizes different Macs support? I did not
>>>>see it at Low End Mac.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Apart from the compacts, all macs will support every monitor size
>>>imaginable. Of course you need plenty of vram and maybe some graphics
>>>accelerator to be happy with the larger sized monitors.
>>
>>Ah, NO! The earliest Macs with built in video interfaces (but no monitor)
>>supported 640x480 and 640x870 and some support 512x384. Later 030s do
>>support 832x624. 68040 machines (with some variation) support up to
>>1152x870. The built in video of the 6100, 7100 and 8100s were limited to
>>832x624.
>
>There's some confusion here as to what is meant by "size". The first answer
>was right, I think, if you're talking about the actual size of the monitor
>(a 21" monitor will work fine on one of the earliest Macs, it will just run
>at 640X480, making for BIG low-res icons) the second answer was correct if
>you are talking about monitor _resolution_.
Early 68030 machines, IIci and IIsi and others, use sync-on-green. Most
latter monitors do not support sync-on-green. While you can get an adapter
to use these monitors with sync-on-green, the cost of the adapter is often
more than a used Quadra.
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