At 11:15 8/01/03 +1100, you wrote:
>From memory the Tandy range of PCs of that vintage used a "Tandy Graphcis
Adaptor". I believe that was 16 colours at 320x200, but only 4 colours at
any higher res. The Tandy was the poor man's EGA. Sure, low-res games
were 16 colours, but high-res apps basically had to be in CGA mode.
>I would imagine that the connector was one of those round RGB connectors
like the Atari 8-bits. But that's a guess.
Here's an example of the 1000EX I have:
http://www.homecomputer.de/pages/f_info.html?Tandy_1000EX.html
The one I have has a standard CGA-looking video connector, and this page
lists it as producing 16 colours, so I'm guessing it's CGA. I've managed to
get a good picture out of it on the monitor now, but it refuses to sync - I
can't get better than a vertically rolling picture. I'll win out in the end
though, dammit.
Guess what I just found though...
http://support.tandy.com/support_accessories/doc4/4397.htm
Comparing to:
http://www.monitorworld.com/faq_pages/q17_page.html
The CM-5 is a CGA monitor, so I think it's safe to assume the 1000EX is CGA
as well. Superb, so much for that little mystery, I hope I'll finish
resurrecting the monitor tonight! Thanks for the inspiration. :-)
>BTW: Any other Australians here. Particularly one that might be
interested in a works-but-no-hard-drive Silicon Graphics Personal Iris. I
was going to use it for a PC case mod, but too much of it still works.
Well, I'm in New Zealand; not really close enough to make use of your SGI,
but maybe someone else will show up!
I wonder how many of us there are in the Aus/NZ region. Probably quite a few.
Mike.
Received on Thu Jan 09 2003 - 12:55:36 GMT