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On 6/10/2006 at 7:47 PM Fred Cisin wrote: I don't think I ever owned a monochrome monitor that was branded as a IBM-compatible for use with my MDA. It was easy enough to tweak standard surplus monitors to display at the higher horizontal frequency--and you could get them in 19" for not a lot of money. When VGA first came out, I invested in a couple of monochrome VGA monitors (still have them). I didn't miss the colors and saved myself a bunch of bucks. Eventually, I picked up some surplus Daisy 20" behemoths and wired up a converter that converted the separate sync to SOG. Not much more than a 74LS86 and some resistors. Jettisoned those around 1995 and picked up some surplus (I think HP) Sony monitors--a 17" and a 20" and did the same. I traded the Daisies to Dave McGlone for a TRS-80 Mod 16 and a bunch of other stuff. I'm using LCD now, but if anyone wants the monitors, they can have them. Nice units, even if they do have the faint Trinitron wire shadow. I'll toss in the PCI VGA cards and adapters. It'll cost me $20 the each to have them recycled at the dump. Boy, those were the times--nothing was safe from the Taiwanese. I'm convinced that some folks working in Silicon Valley PC firms were quietly spying for Taiwanese firms. For a number of years, it was mostly commodity ICs in designs, so what was to stop them? Today, it'd be a field day for the lawyers. I meant to get an InColor card, but enhanced EGA and then VGA just rendered the issue moot. Cheers, Chuck