Re: Does an enhanced //e _ALWAYS_ have 80 col. support?

[Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>]

In article <cnrebp$7na$1@online.de>, Oliver Schmidt <ol.sc@web.de> 
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have read that it was possible to upgrade an //e to an enhanced //e
> by means of an new CPU, ROM and charset generator.
> 
> I would assume that at least these machines could be examples of
> enhanced //e's without 80 col. support.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any hints or infos, Oliver

At the very least, they would indeed be such a creature. For the most 
part, though, if it's an enhanced, it's probably got at least an 
80-column card, if not an extended, or perhaps one of the several 
"Mounds-O-Memory" cards that also behave as 80-column cards. Not that 
it's required to make it an enhanced //e, but because by the time people 
started "enhancing" them (or bought a spiffy new enhanced) they either 
already had some form of 80-column support, or they came from the store 
with it already installed.

So I guess the proper answer to the question posed by your subject line 
is "No, not always. Just usually."

-- 
Don Bruder - dakidd@sonic.net - New Email policy in effect as of Feb. 21, 2004.
Short form: I'm trashing EVERY E-mail that doesn't contain a password in the
subject unless it comes from a "whitelisted" (pre-approved by me) address.
See <http://www.sonic.net/~dakidd/main/contact.html> for full details.