Apple Portrait Display (OEM'd by Radius) there's NOTHING like it!

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Gotta agree - for reading large quantities of text it's pretty hard to beat that greyscale crispness. The portrait orientation might take a bit of getting used to, but after a while it feels sooo right.

I haven't tried the Apple Two Page Display yet (also greyscale) but I hear good things.

I also *loved* my 17" Applevision when I was on OS 9 (and it still worked). The fact that they're stuck on 640x480 on any other OS (or any machine without ADB) blows pretty hard. But for an ADB, OS 9 or earlier Mac, and *if* it still works, they are gorgeous. The ability to tweak and tune it through software is great, but also the reason why it's stuck in Classic land.

dell (ugh) had a series of trinatron tube monitors

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Yep - got a couple of those here too @ 21". Also awesome. Heavy as .. a heavy thing, and massive, but wow are they good displays. And they seem able to sync to just about anything.

I can't really say nice things about any of the Apple CRTs that I have. All of them have something wrong:

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Stuff breaks; 'tis the law of the universe, Jim. Everything needs maintenance eventually.

on the back there is a series of piano style dip switches so you can set different signal attributes for the expected incoming signal, an Atari style toggle switch to flip from TTL to RGB

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Yep, that sounds pretty versatile. Might have to keep an eye out for one of them.