Back to the A1097C monitor again

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Thu Jul 27 13:46:40 2000

>You'll find that MANY of the 19" monitors are optimized for odd formats.
>This is particularly true of DEC monitors. In fact, DEC seemingly made
>certain their monitors would be totally useless for anything other than
>their intended application by choosing some odd geometries e.g. 1152x831,

The idea is that you have to use a REAL DEC monitor on DEC, not that you
can't use it on other stuff (which they could give a rat's rear about).

>The card was a Photon board with a customized BIOS ROM that made it work OK

Macs are way easier to get working with the weird monitors. For the PC I
have heard good things about the Matrox Mellenium G200 cards, which I
"think" are highly programmable. The real catch with the PC is supporting
the DOS startup modes at some faked variation of 640x480.
Received on Thu Jul 27 2000 - 13:46:40 BST