Re: Hooking up Amiga drive to IBM compatible.

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From: Alex Butcher
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 11:08

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In article <475i7m$9gv@deltona.cs.ucf.edu>, tech@deltona.cs.ucf.edu says...
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>Speaking of hooking up amiga stuff. I have a nice color monitor, a
>1080 I believe, that was on an amiga system. Can I buy a cable adapter
>that will allow me to use this monitor with a vga card? I appreciate
>all responses. Thanks.

You probably won't be able to get any use out of that monitor - it's a 15KHz
monitor limited to around 60Hz refresh. In short, quite useless for PC
displays (which typically use 60KHz horizontal and 60-100Hz vertical).
Keep it on the Amiga where it's much more use! :)

>
>Tony Travaglini
>tech@cs.ucf.edu 

Regards,
Alex. 
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