jimla@tekig.UUCP (James G. Larsen) (10/30/83)
Is the monochrome board interlaced or non-interlaced scan? Can a hi-res RGB color monitor be driven by the monochrome display board? Any rumors on new display boards from IBM? Jim Larsen (Trying to configure a new pc)
robison@eosp1.UUCP (11/03/83)
The nov 83 PC magazine has no less than 3 new ads for controllers that do what you want. DOes anybody know anything about them? One of the new boards is a Toronto company, MDS, making the "real color board". The other two are: The BIGraphics board (see the ad by Applied computer products). The MYLEX graphics card (1-800-446-9539). Both may be available in December, at list prices of $595 and up. They appear to allow you to run IBM standard color graphics and see the results on a mono CRT. The BIGraphics board might also be Hercules compatible. Meanwhile, although some people say that you will burn out a mono CRT if you connect it to a color adapter, others claim that there is some way (unknown to me) to do it. The USI board, which gives you both color with graphics, and mono without, (but on two separate CRTs) is still being advertised as low as $299. Does anybody have more info on how to do color PC graphics on a mono CRT? - Keremath, care of: Robison decvax!ittvax!eosp1 or: allegra!eosp1