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Article #1649Re: 2 VDU's but Just a Single Mac
From: ric
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 00:00
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Jim McCormick <jim@eurog.demon.co.uk> wrote: > For reasons that need not delay us here I have 2 VDUs a 17 in and 14 in - > both, as it happens, non-Mac. > > Now the on-line help tells me that I can have both working together and > refers me to the Manual which refers me to the instruction book that came > with the VDU! Not exactly helpful. > > The Mac is a Performa 6200, running 7.5.5 OS with 1MB of Video RAM which I > understand cannot be increased - but then I may be wrong. > > The questions are:- > > a. Is it possible to attach the 2 VDUs? Yes! > > b. If so how and what would the cost be? > You'll need a video card, for which I would try Mygate computers. You want an LC slot video card, which may well not be cheap. Obviously, you may need to buy an adaptor from the video card to the PC connector on the monitor. I'd suggest hanging the 14 inch off of the built in video, and the 17 inch off of the video card, as it will probably do higher resolutions. -- 'ric
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,c3ac5d9cd2ea1506 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public From: btgsch@rmplc.co.uk (ric) Subject: Re: 2 VDU's but Just a Single Mac Date: 1998/02/20 Message-ID: <1d4rhde.1vo0a2o1adgbgkN@rm-dynf1-146.rmplc.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 327029898 References: <B113678D96687F90@eurog.demon.co.uk> Organization: Those with six coloured blood Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac