Chuck Guzis wrote:
Okay, here's a grayscale tiff of the first of
two pages (the second page
I hate to trouble you again, but now there is question from the
individual I am trying to convince that the sheet you scanned was from a
"later revision" of the tech ref. Can you scan the page with the
copyright date on it?
Oh for %deity's sake....
I will admit that the Techref I looked is a relatively late one in that I
bought it from IBM long after it was discontinued (they still had some in
stock). But I've never seen or heard of another version of the CGA
monitor
Chuck has posted the same information from his techref.
I feel it's unlikely IBM would have changed this (why do so?). And
rememebr the idea was perpetuated in the EGA card/monitor (why do this if
the earlier CGA card had not also done it?). And also I've seen clone CGA
monitors that had a circuit to perform the same function (often a 74138
decoder chip was used to detect clour 6). And we all know that some
clones missed out anything that was not strictly necessary
I feel the onus is on the original questioner to provide documentary
evidence, including schematics, showing an IBM CGA monitor that did not
do this. Or an example of an actual IBM-badged 5153 that does not
contain this circuitry. Should one be found I'll be happy to put a note
in my Techref. But until one is found I am happy to beleive that all
5153s include the brown-kludge.
-tony