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From: rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Vga Boards, and Seiko's new monitor
Keywords: vga,graphics,windows,video-7,stb,wonder,fastwrite,monitor,seiko
Message-ID: <2565@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 30 Jun 89 14:24:25 GMT
Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC
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I am in the market for a cheap VGA adapter.  I have lowered my sights from
800x600x256 to 800x600x16 ( I would still like the option to upgrade).  
Probably the most important feature I need is Windows/286/386 support. 
The current board of choice seems to be the Video-7 V-RAM, but this is just too
expensive for me.  What about the Video-7 FASTWRITE VGA board?  I have not seen
any reviews of it in the magazines.  Anyone know anything about it.  The
ads say that it will do 800x600x16 and that you can expand it from 256k to 
512k.  Can it then display 800x600x256?

The STB boards seem to have great Windows drivers,  according to the last
PC magazine the STB board was slow *except* when running Windows.  We have
a VGA Wonder here at work and it does not hav a Windows/386 driver and only
one Windows/286 driver.

While we are talking about VGA, has anyone seen that new monitor by Seiko 
(CM-1430)?  It has a dot pitch of .26mm and lines instead of dots. 


-----Dale
	Rogerson-----