19 Apr
2012
19 Apr
'12
1:17 p.m.
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Tony Duell wrote:
I was merely suggesting that, for a sufficient incentive, that you might
even give up the original, in exchange for a copy of adequate quality to
have all the information content, plus suitable [large] compensation,
If he DOES
need the original (legal evidence, or some such),
Well, I supposed tha, logically,
I would have to tell him to look
elsewhere :-)
what if he offered you a high-quality double
sided bound Xerox of it,
plus cash,
plus some interesting hardware from that period or before?
Although that would be
tempting... The IBM EGA board has a DE9 socket on the bracket for
the monitor, with a
jumper link on the board to select the funcito nfo pin 2 (either
grounded, for CGA and MDA monitors or the low bit of the red signal for
EGA monitors). There are also 2 RCA phono sockets, but they're just wired
to 2 pins of the expansion conenctor. I guess you could desig a composite
video encoder to fit there.
When I fist saw the board, I was seriously disappointed that neither of
those was wired to provide a composite (RS170?) signal.
Oh, there's an SIL header (I think 6 pins,
one cut off) for a lightpen on the board too.
But, probably due to the long persistance phosphor of the original IBM
"Monochrome" monitor, IBM never provided a light pen for any of their
[PC video] cards that supported one.