Mac SE Sigma Video Card

From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_eskimo.com>
Date: Thu Nov 22 11:59:55 2001

On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:49:53AM -0500, Chris wrote:
> >>B: What kind of monitor it connects to? (looks like a CGA or EGA
> >>connector, but could be just about anything... from what I am finding
> >>Sigma offered a cool SCSI based monitor that had its own custom stuff, so
> >>I am fearing that it needed a custom monitor too)
> >
> >
> >I'm pretty sure it's a TPD monochrome card IIRC. (TwoPageDisplay)
>
> Is their anything special about a two page display? or can I use a more
> standard monitor (like CGA, or VGA with some kind of adaptor)?

Your standard monitor may have to support an oddball resolution... those
two-page displays were designed to allow publishers and graphics people
to preview two 8.5x11" pages side by side.

If you had a one-page display card the resolutionn would be even weirder
(the actual monitors are really tall and thin, the same proportions as
one 8.5x11" page).

-- Derek
Received on Thu Nov 22 2001 - 11:59:55 GMT