sad when you  think of all the  cards that have been scrapped  over the
last  20 years  for early PC
Ed#
In a message dated 8/14/2016 10:55:54 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
cclist at 
sydex.com writes:
On  08/14/2016 10:15 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
  why the unnecessary  switches? (CGA does mode
switching in software,
 and enables  simultaneous composite and RGB, hence the IBM vetsion
 dorsn't need  switches) 
I think that the switches mostly relate to output  configurations; that
is, they don't change the basic operation.  For  example, the "monochrome
composite" is probably  just luminance, blank  and sync (VBS), whereas
the "color composite" is the complete CVBS  signal.
I suspect that setting either of the two composite modes  probably
disables the output at the DE-9.
It would be interesting to  see what other combinations of switches
produce something useful.
Of  course, this is all wild-hare speculation on my part, as I don't  have
anything like this card sitting in my  hellbox.
FWIW,
Chuck