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Article #25Re: Using 1490 monitor on another machine
From: Chad Price
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:01
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:01
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joiner@cs.umn.edu (Jay Joiner) writes: >In <5932@pdxgate.UUCP> h2co@odin.cc.pdx.edu (Candace O'Connor) writes: >>I can just about buy another machine for the price of the motherboard >>- *especially* if I can still use my 1490 monitor. >>So, what I want to do is buy another machine without monitor or floppies >>and use the ones I have. Does anyone know of any reason why I cannot >>just plug the card and 1490 monitor into a new machine? >The video card is a standard ISA VGA card that should work in any machine. >I have used mine in conjunction with a Western Digital 8514/A adapter >using the pass-through edge connector. I have an original Z-396/16 and the video card which came with it is NOT a standard VGA card. The original card in these was the Z-449, which is a pooly executed, incompatible EGA card with a VGA resolution mode which requires special drivers. If you have the Z-549 card you may have better luck, but if you have the Z-449, junk it and buy a cheap VGA clone. I bought an ATI Basic-16 VGA and it works fine. >The monitor will work with any standard VGA card, but not SVGA, since >it can only display 640x480 max. resolution. I have used the monitor with >a basic Paradise (i.e., Western Digital) VGA card. Yes - this is correct. -- chad price@helios.unl.edu cprice@molecular.unmc.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!unlinfo.unl.edu!price From: price@helios.unl.edu (Chad Price) Subject: Re: Using 1490 monitor on another machine Message-ID: <price.712245709@helios> Keywords: Zenith computers, 1490 monitor compatibility Sender: news@unlinfo.unl.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: helios.unl.edu Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln References: <5932@pdxgate.UUCP> <1992Jul25.022128.23842@cs.umn.edu> Distribution: usa Date: 27 Jul 92 14:01:49 GMT Lines: 33