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Re: Video Card Recommendation requested

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From: Stephen Hendricks
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 00:00
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Matthew or Stephanie Floyd <mfloyd@eden.com> wrote:

>Looking for recommendations on the best video card that meets the
>following requirements. If you have negative recommendations against
>certain cards, I would appreciate that also.

>Bus: VLB

I ran VL bus video for several years.  My recommdation NOW is to buy a
new motherboard and use a modern Video Card with PCI bus.

>Windows 95 Drivers
>2 MB VRAM (expandable a plus)

VRAM is not necessarily a good choice.  The Faster Video cards don't
use it.

>Price: less than $200.00

The STB Lightspeed and Hercules Dynamite 128 are both under $200 and
both PCI.  You'll have trouble just finding a good VL bus card these
days.
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From: mobius@smart.net (Stephen Hendricks)
Subject: Re: Video Card Recommendation requested
Date: 1996/10/08
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