[net.micro.pc] Help! Need 130 cols

bcking@inmet.UUCP (11/16/85)

Please help: someone here needs to view 130 columns on the wordprocessing
screen at once.  She can do it with the right minicomputer and its software,
but now she has to do it on a PC.

1. Is this possible, with DOS and the screen memory laid out the way it is?
(I doubt it, but maybe.)

2. Is there some screen driver/hardware combination available that will do this?
There's a board distributed thru Progressive Micro Dist called Tseng Labs
"UltraPAK" (132 col mono graphics, serial, parallel, C/C): will it do the
trick?


Christine King
Intermetrics, Inc.
Cambridge MA 02138

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bergen@dadlac.UUCP (Alan Bergen) (11/25/85)

This is a standard feature of the Victor 9000 computer with its high resolution 
screen (800 X 400).  You have a choice of 25 lines by 80 columns, or 50 lines by 
132 columns, and you can switch between them with a key on the keyboard.  I 
doubt whether you can do this with the low resolution of the PC.