All good points. Too bad you are in Australia or we could be far more helpful to each other. So you have one of these oddball TTL LCD screens, or is it something like this which seems to be Multisync:... I have a vested interest - as I have the LCD panel section without the Mac adapter.
And it reminds me that I have a 22" monochrome EGA monitor I've been wondering what the hell to do with }
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