13 Feb
2006
13 Feb
'06
12:59 a.m.
Chris M wrote:
although its been refuted on this list, I do seem to
recall reading that plugging a 5151 into a CGA card
was catastrophic - read IMPLOSION. Alas only a
suburban legend. And as much as Id like to see it (not
that I have anything against 5151s), Im not going to
be trying it anytime soon. No way, no how...
The frequencies are different but not enough to blow anything up.
Excessively *high* frequencies, on the other hand, will release the
magic smoke. I've seen this firsthand by a program a friend wrote that
output random values to the CGA registers until monitor go >poof<. The
particular combination was CGA card connected to "monochrome CGA"
monitor (it was monochrome, but accepted a CGA signal and displayed the
16 colors as 16 shades of gray).
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