On 6/10/2006 at 3:59 PM Fred Cisin wrote:
Describe
me a CGA board on that media ;o)
Yuck!!!
I can't remeber anything I liked about CGA?
It produced composite [almost] NTSC video, and therefore provided
a way to use a PC without buying an IBM monitor.
($100 v $600)
You mean like an Atari 400/800 or an Apple ][[?
Wait--you had to buy a modulator for the CGA. When I saw the 80x25 text
display of the CGA (on an IBM monitor), I decided that color wasn't for me.
I bought the MDA and picked up a bare-frame 15" monitor at Haltek for
something like $50. Put it in a plywood box with a 24v switcher for power.
It worked until I bought for a Sony variable sync color monitor a couple
of years later.
One thing that held the wholesale adoption of color back was the generally
lousy quality of the CRTs available at the time. Most were designed for
broadcast viewing and had a very coarse dot pitch which made things like
text unpleasant to read.
Cheers,
Chuck