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From: fayne@Tellabs.COM (Jeffrey Fayne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: 100ft cable on EGA monitor (QUERY)
Message-ID: <2555@tellab5.tellabs.com>
Date: 9 May 90 13:16:19 GMT
Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle, IL
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Here's an unusual one:

A friend of mine develops in-house PC-based test equipment for a local
manufacturer. He is developing a system that requires the use of two 
monitors (one is an EGA color and the other a monochrome). What he would
like to do is have the mono monitor next to the PC for the test operator to
use, while the color monitor has to be approx. *100 FEET* away.

The question he has is:

                Will a typical EGA card (a Paradise card in this case)
                drive a monitor that is that far away?

If not does some sort of buffer/driver device exist to solve his problem?





Any ideas or pointers to products would be appreciated.




                        Thanks in advance,

                                        Jeff

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