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From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Quality Color Text with CGA?
Message-ID: <1990Jan15.212331.3509@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: 15 Jan 90 21:23:31 GMT
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Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA
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acm@grendal.UUCP writes:

>when I run it on a stock CGA card with an el cheapo CGA RGB monitor
>the text is almost unreadable.

Your problem is probably the el cheapo monitor.  When they cut the price,
focus and convergence are the first things to go.  A better screen would help
a great deal unless the CGA card is unusually bad.  If you want a low-priced
system that doesn't make you go blind, use a mono monitor and a Hercules
clone card.  Cheap mono monitors such as the amber Amdek are quite readable.
-- 
John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650
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