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Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
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Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:31:19 GMT
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foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu (J.D. Forinash) writes:
> In article <m2elhd6hfd.fsf@komodo.home.wards.net>,
> William R Ward <bill@wards.net> wrote:
> > 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.)
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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.
Since Hercules is a superset of MDA, I thought "Hercules MDA" was the
full name. It is, after all, a monochrome display adapter!
> Hercules, on the other hand, was a different spec and did in fact allow
> pixel-addressed monochrome graphics. It was pretty wildly popular even
> after CGA came out, since it allowed a monstrous 720x350 or so, where CGA
> was four-color 320x200.
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 up the entire maximum card size
of the AT case. You know how they always had those rails for holding
cards waaay over on the other end of the motherboard, but very few
cards were long enough to reach them? This one reaches them. I
actually used it for a while on a 386 when I was running a BBS. It
works great with monitors for the Commodore 128. But I thought tha
CGA was 16 color 320x200. You sure it was only 4-color?
> I even have a monitor lying about that'll display TTL, but I didn't have
> any ISA or VLB video cards any more.
Well, if you want one let me know....
[...]
> Last move, I gave away anything I still had that wasn't at least Pentium
> Pro or faster. (that was just last year...) A friend of mine builds
> PCs for the underprivleged, so it seemed to be a good cause.
That's what I'm trying to do now. Not a lot of takers though.
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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