New 'Toy'

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sat Apr 27 14:31:00 2002

>Pat Finnegan wrote:
>>I'm
>>suprised the 16bit card works OK in an 8bit slot).....
>
>Some of them can do that. I have a 16-bit ISA VGA card from Western
>Digital that will do it too.

        Other than memory cards, quite a few of the 16bit boards from
the mid 1980's will work in an 8bit ISA slot, either by changing a
jumper or through the board autodetecting the slot type. Western
Digital / Paradise chipset VGA boards are known for this.

        Jeff

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