They weren't impossible to find at all.   I looked last night and found a number of monitors back in the day that could handle the number of lines being output by the XEP80, with a CUB colour monitor (in monochrome mode) being just one of the monitors I found capable of the task. The monitors weren't cheap, but they were available. Plus, we have a number of people in this very thread stating they were getting the full 25 lines on what sounds like monochrome TV's.   Essentiall