19 Apr
2012
19 Apr
'12
11:21 a.m.
> But seriously, I'm interested in it if
you do indeed have that.
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Tony Duell wrote:
6280131
SS34-0007-00
March 18, 1986
That said, there is no way I am selling it. Period. Not matter what you
offer me.
Tony, Tony, Tony, . . .
If he DOES need the original (legal evidence, or some such), 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...
However, no such offer has been made, and I suspect the OP wants the
content rather than the physical document, so this is academic.
I've got a
couple of such EGA cards here, not in this machine
I mostly skipped from CGA to VGA on PCs, but I ran EGA on all of my Compaq portables - the internal monitor was happy with EGA,
and the Compq EGA
board (and the adapter for ATI EGA) had the 6? 8? pin dual row connector
in mid board.
AFAIK a real IBM EGA board (and I assume clones) can be configured to
work with an MDA, CGA or EGA monitor. Obviously the avaialble graphic
modes are limited by the monitor you use, but it will work.
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. Oh, there's an SIL header (I think 6 pins,
one cut off) for a lightpen on the board too.
-tony