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(...) In the PC world, motherboards that'll boot without a video card installed are way rare. (this one was an AMI Bios, so it gave the eight-beep "I can't find video!" post code...) -JDF (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) not that bad - most bioses I saw give an option saying "ignore errors at boot" - it'll still beep, but will move on... then again, I think there actually is some sort of video card installed in the box, though I've no idea, really... :) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That'll get you around stuff like "Keyboard not detected" (or the IBM version, which was "No keyboard present, press <F1> to continue"), or "I have no idea what floppy drive you're talking about", but that BIOS setting won't get you past the (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) So put a Hercules MDA video card in it! :-) (That's the old monochrome standard, from the days when color monitors were rare on PC's.) I've got a storage locker full of old computer crap that I'd love to get rid of, but I can't quite bring (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Which one's the standard? :) The MDA was the original PC display adapter (stood for, amazingly enough, Monochrome Display Adapter) and didn't do graphics at all. Two color, text only, 80x25. Hercules, on the other hand, was a different spec (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Since Hercules is a superset of MDA, I thought "Hercules MDA" was the full name. It is, after all, a monochrome display adapter! (...) I've got a CGA card that's truly frightening - it's an 8-bit ISA card that is full of 74xx chips. It takes (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) My old EGA card (by a clone brand) had a Hercules emulation mode and I had some games that used it! (...) Yes. 4 colors at a time, but you could choose which 4 from two possible palettes. Red/Green/Blue/Black or Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/Black, if I (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Nope, they were two different things. MDA really didn't last long once CGA and Hercules existed. (...) Depends on the mode, actually. You could only do graphics in four colors, or text in eight, but the card knew how to display 16 total. You (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I see. I was talking about text mode, you were talking about graphics mode. --Bill. (23 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Or, better, get a PC Weasel (URL), which emulates a video card (VGA for the PCI version, MDA for the ISA) and a keyboard during boot and sends the data <-> its serial port -- allowing you to access the BIOS config program. And then when it (...) (23 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It frightens me that you all have kept my subject line! well, it does say "low-end". (23 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Ancient and obscure hardware geekery (Was: Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac)
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(...) Yeah, but the _cheap one_ is $250! I have a Lego habit to support! Seriously, though, one more reason why it wasn't a bad idea to replace the old 486 firewall with a hundred bucks worth of Linksys filtering router. :) On the other hand, I (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Ancient and obscure hardware geekery (Was: Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac)
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(...) It's definitely a good thing to get one's employer to buy. (23 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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