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Article #627Re: 24-BIT SVGA cards $199.00 NEW!
From: Rene Magritte
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 06:25
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 06:25
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adam@microware.com (Adam Goldberg) writes: >chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU (CHU JEFFREY) writes: >>well I just dropped by my local COMPUSA store which had the new >>DIAMOND SPEEDSTAR 24-BIT card that does 16 million colors at 640x480 >>and 32000 at 800x600, etc... This card was $199.00. It's amazing >>what the price for this 24-BIT card was! >This is no deal. I paid $170 for it a week after it came out. >-- >Adam G. >adamg@microware.com, or ...!uunet!mcrware!adamg >The above is not to be construed in any way as the official or unofficial >statements of Microware, or any Microware employees. Does the card indeed do a 800x600x32000? If so, I'll order it in a second and consider the 24 bit mode a "nice touch". I seem to recall, though (perhaps incorrectly) that it didn't handle 800x600x32k mode.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!sdd.hp.com!usc!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!news.u.washington.edu!hardy.u.washington.edu!rene From: rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte) Subject: Re: 24-BIT SVGA cards $199.00 NEW! Message-ID: <1992Aug8.062515.28889@u.washington.edu> Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Washington References: <1992Jul23.044139.9974@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <adam.711988646@mcrware> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1992 06:25:15 GMT Lines: 24