24 May
2014
24 May
'14
12:08 p.m.
On Fri, 23 May 2014, Tony Duell wrote:
My Optionas and Adapters Techref has the section called 'Monochrome
Display and Printer Adapter', the pages labelled 'Monochrome adapter' and
the schematics captioned 'Monochrome Display Adapter' (and FWIW the
schematics do contain the printer port too). You choose :-)
Waht wa all call the CGA is called the 'Color/Graphics Monitor Adapter'.
(Yes, Monitor, not Display)
-tony
What's happened to MDA ? :-)
It was replaced by "Hercules".
The IBM product was called "MDP". In 1981, that printer port was a
selling point.