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From: woolstar@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (John D Woolverton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DECstation moniter swapping
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Date: 14 Sep 89 19:20:20 GMT
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mcguffey@muvms3.bitnet (Michael McGuffey) says:
> We have several color VS2000's.  Can we swap monitors with a mono DS2100 
> or DS3100 and get a greyscale 2000 and color 2100/3100?  In other words, 
> is the only difference between the mono and color DECstation the monitor 
> or is there some inherent electronics hardware difference?  What's involved
> in a mono to color DECstation upgrade.

The mono and color options in the DECstation use different
display cards.  The mono is only single bit, while the color
is 8 bit.  If the mono and color options were just a monitor
difference, you could do gray scales on the b/w screen.

It would be really nice to have a DECstation option with
a 8 bit gray scale moniter.  (Maybe I'll get the color option
and put my b/w moniter on it  :-)

	John d Woolverton, Video Bits
	  woolstar@csvax.caltech.edu