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Re: 24-BIT SVGA cards $199.00 NEW!

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From: CHU JEFFREY
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 02:07
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In article <1992Aug8.062515.28889@u.washington.edu> rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte) writes:
>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.
>

From searching through mags and stuff, get the SPEEDSTAR 24X which is
the same price!!! YES it does 800x600x32000, and the 24X is suppose(I heard)
to be faster than the STEALTH!  $169 at MICROLAB 1-800-288-7828.
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Subject: Re: 24-BIT SVGA cards $199.00 NEW!
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