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Re: wanted: video card for PGA monitor

#5446
From: Jeff Sicherman
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 1990 05:36
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In article <1672@wjvax.UUCP> mario@wjvax.UUCP (Mario Dona) writes:
>
>I realy got a bargin recently when I purchased an IBM AT with a
>Professional Graphics Display (PGA) monitor, all for $250! Unfortunately,
>it didn't come with a PGA video card, so now I'm not so sure it was a bargain.
>(A PGA monitor has a resolution of 640-by-480 pixels with a horizontal scan
>rate of 30.480 kHz and a vertical rate of 60 Hz.) Is there a low cost
>solution to getting this monitor to work? I really would like to use as
>long as I don't have to pay an arm and a leg to do it; as I understand
>it, the original Professional Graphics Card Set, when fully expanded,
>used three slots in XT or AT system!
>

  The recent issue of Circuit Cellar Ink has a do-it-yourself project
to interface a PGA monitor to a VGA card.

Jeff Sicherman
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From: sichermn@beach.csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: wanted: video card for PGA monitor
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Date: 11 Dec 90 05:36:05 GMT
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