Re: New hardware ... new video card idea

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@es.co.nz>]

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In article <397A26C1.71397943@inetnebr.com>, Roy and/or Janet Miller
<millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:

>IBM in 1987 came out with both the VGA and the MCGA display modes. The MCGA modes
>would work on VGA monitors. The MCGA did 320X200 with up to 256 colors (sound
>familiar?) and a 640X200 with (I think) up to 16 colors. These modes were the only
>modes built into the "Baby" PS/2, the Model 25, which couldn't display VGA - but it
>can. Bill Malcom of the AppleLinc club (who is doing some hardware projects of his
>own) too two old Model 25s that I gave him, and turned them into VGA 12" monitors.
>They aren't great, but they will do the basic VGA displays.
>
>Now, here is where my ignorance leads me blightly onward. If those VGA monitors
>could do 320X200 and 640X200 with colors like the IIGS... well, it is an
>interesting thought isn't it?
>
>Roy