> 
> At 10:43 AM 9/9/97, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> >I think the question was getting to the fact that Apple used to put the
> >sense information for the monitors in the cable, not in the monitor. So
> >if you grabbed the wrong cable, your monitor got fed trash. :-( Not a
> >problem if the cable's attached as you mention.
> 
> No!  Really?  I guess I could believe anything, but surely they kept the
> monitor information in the monitor?

It's what I've read. It's been a while, so I've forgotten exactly where
it was...

> I guess I never ran into that because usually the only Apple monitors
> around were specifically the original one.

Shows that they weren't far off in saving the cost of those 3 wires
running to the monitor (and associated cable stiffness, etc.).

Take care,

Bill