kahn@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Gary I Kahn) (10/01/88)
I'm considering buying an EGA monitor and card from CompuAdd. Does anyone have any comments about the quality of their "no-name" monitors or the Standard Brand EGA cards? I'm also concerned about the risk of ordering a monitor through a mail order company (and about their shipping it, and my receiving it intact). In the monitor, I'm looking for a low-glare screen with very good text quality and small "divergence" of the colors at the edges. Thanks in advance.
anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson, MACC) (10/02/88)
In article <6369@xanth.cs.odu.edu>, kahn@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Gary I Kahn) writes... ]I'm considering buying an EGA monitor and card from CompuAdd. Does anyone ]have any comments about the quality of their "no-name" monitors or the ]Standard Brand EGA cards? I'm also concerned about the risk of ordering ]a monitor through a mail order company (and about their shipping it, and ]my receiving it intact). In the monitor, I'm looking for a low-glare screen ]with very good text quality and small "divergence" of the colors at the edges. I assume price is a factor, and I don't know the current prices except to be pretty sure they're less than I paid a year+ ago, but you might consider an Everex Micro Enhancer Deluxe adapter (it's a little better than EGA, actually, can co-exist with another graphics adapter, and includes a parallel port). It was $158 from Club American Technologies. The monitor is a Tatung CM1380F, (13") and I am well pleased with the combination. There is no edge divergence worth noting. As to text quality, the native font is not especially wonderful (it's the same one you see everywhere), but I found a utility that lets you have whatever you can devise in the way of a screen font, and I use it for many hours with no eyestrain. All of this is not quite what you asked about, but I don't recall seeing much mention of this sort of thing here, so I thought I'd volunteer this info. Oh yeah, the monitor was not so cheap: $480. But prices really come down sometimes. The Micropolis 1335 HD (72MB) I paid $890 for in March is now $560 (also from Club). As for mail order shipping, as long as they use UPS, I don't think you're too likely to have a problem. I've bought two complete systems by mail order, both shipped UPS from CA to WI, everything worked fine right out of the box. I've had no contact with CompuAdd, so can't say a thing about them. As for Club and other vendors mentioned, standard disclaimers apply. ==Jess Anderson======(home:)========INTERNET: anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu==== | 1210 W. Dayton 2838 Stevens UUCP: {harvard,rutgers,allegra,ucbvax} | | Madison, WI 53706 Madison 53705 !uwvax!vms3.macc.wisc.edu!anderson | ==608/263-6988=======608/238-4833===BITNET: anderson@wiscmacc===============
yelorose@juniper.uucp (Bob Mosley III) (10/02/88)
...I've got the Samsung EGA with the card from CompuAdd, and with one small problem, I'm seriously impressed! ...Edge divergence? WHAT edge divergence? (as for the problem, the card tends to lose synch every now and then, but it's easily corrected by resetting the video mode.) I reccomment it, still. The display is clean, and the glare is really low for a monitor of this type. OM