Wyse 386, was: Re: HH drives

From: Rob O'Donnell <classiccmp.org_at_irrelevant.fsnet.co.uk>
Date: Wed Apr 16 10:28:12 2003

At 23:35 16/04/2003 +1100, Dr. Ido wrote:

>At 11:00 AM 4/16/03 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >Wyse Monochrome Graphics Display Adapter Utility Diskette 1.01
> >Wyse Monochrome Graphics Display Adapter Utility Diskette 1.01.txt [*]
>
>Are these for the Wyse card that drives the WY-800 monitor?
>
>I've got one of these monitors somewhere, but have never been able to get
>anything other than standard 80x25 DOS text mode out of it. Very nice in
>text mode, larger character cell than VGA, nice characters, long
>persistance white phoshor CRT. Without drivers it emulates CGA, but I'm
>pretty sure it's capable of hires mono graphics with the right
>software/drivers.

To be honest, I don't know!

Apart from the above description, the label has a part code of 730288-01,
(C)Wyse Technology, Inc. 1989. No other info I am afraid..

Files on there include "mpatest.exe" so I suspect if you run that against
your card it might indicate something..

regards

Rob,
Received on Wed Apr 16 2003 - 10:28:12 BST