On 6/10/2006 at 7:47 PM Fred Cisin wrote:
~$400 and non-standard frequencies v ~$100 for a
standard CCTV monitor
(plus, I could videotape directly from CGA)
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 did Jenkins get bent out of shape when people began
imitating his
[imporoved] imitation of the MDA!
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