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04-May-03, 05:33 PM
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| Apex Advanced Techie  Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Mass.
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 |  Looking for old skewl Video... Hey guys... I'm setting up a BSD server in my house and have aquired a retro orange text on black monitor. I'd really like to use this but it has a funky connector on it that a regular video card won't run. it seems to be VGA with a few pins missing. So i guess i'm looking for the type of cards they use to run dumb terminals. Anyone got one or know where to get one? |
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04-May-03, 05:40 PM
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| Minnes-hoe-tan  Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Moorhead, Minnes-Hoe-ta
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  | Most monitors don't have all the pins... you tested it though.. A good place to find dumb terminal stuff would be www.newegg.com They seem to have everything, and I like their service... I don't like who they use to ship, but that's because it took them 4 days on an overnight package due to dumb strokes of lousy luck.
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04-May-03, 05:41 PM
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| PCApex's Mouthy Stepchild  Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Interia's Bed
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| It might work on an old school ISA CGA card. Maybe even the hi-tech EGA card too. It has two rows of pins instead of three?
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04-May-03, 05:50 PM
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| PCApex's Mouthy Stepchild Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Interia's Bed
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| Well then, its a old skewl monochrome monitor, that might work on a CGA card. All you need is an ISA CGA card if the rig has any ISA slots on 'em. I used to have one kicking around, dunno if I still have it... I remember when I had a 286, had a CGA card, with a "green" monochrome monitor...
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04-May-03, 06:48 PM
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| Apex Techie II  Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Ontairo, Canada
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 | Colour Graphic Adaptor. Though whoever came up with the name obviously was unaware there are more than 3 colours.....  Soulless
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04-May-03, 07:56 PM
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| PCApex's Mouthy Stepchild Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Interia's Bed
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| I thought the CGA had 16 colours..and EGA had 64 colours, then VGA 256! w00t..And thus your video card history comes to a conclusion
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05-May-03, 07:00 PM
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| Apex Techie Lite  Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: new york
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| ypou might be able to get a card at www.compgeek.com they have video carda that start with 2mb of ram so they should have something old enough for you to get that old monitor working.
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05-May-03, 07:05 PM
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| PCApex's Mouthy Stepchild Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Interia's Bed
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| I'll ask my brother if he has a cga card, if so, its yours if you want it. I just hope he didnt throw out all his old computer crap..
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05-May-03, 07:26 PM
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| PCApex's Mouthy Stepchild Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Interia's Bed
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| Ok, I'll let you know sometime this week, my brother is hard to get ahold of sometimes.
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06-May-03, 05:27 PM
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| Apex Techie Lite Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: new york
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| sorry it was my mistake. i put compgeek instead of www.compgeeks.com
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