Apple 640 manual Setting the monitor, Setting the time and date

Setting the monitor

The monitor connected to your Macintosh DOS-compatible system displays the environment (Mac OS or PC) you’re working in. Even though you see only one environment at a time, the other environment can still be active in the background.

To set the monitor for the PC environment:

mChoose a monitor type in the Display pop-up menu of the PC Setup control panel.

See the Technical Information booklet that came with your computer for a list of supported Macintosh monitors and for VGA and SVGA monitor specifications.

If the DOS-compatibility software recognizes the monitor connected to your computer as a non-multiscan display, it makes the appropriate selection for you; other choices in the menu are dimmed.

16" monitor requires driver: If you have a 16" monitor, the PC environment doesn’t use the entire screen unless you install a display driver for the program that you’re using. (DOS can’t use a video driver, so there will always be a large black border around the DOS screen.) See “Reinstalling Video Drivers” in the section “Reinstalling the DOS-Compatibility Software” in Chapter 8 for instructions.

Setting the time and date

The PC environment uses the same date and time settings as the Mac OS. If you change the time and date in the PC environment, it will not affect the time and date on the Mac OS.

When you restart the PC environment, it synchronizes its time and date with the settings you’ve chosen in the Mac OS. (The PC environment may lag up to 10 seconds behind the Mac OS.)

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