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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 - 1950 Monitor Question
Summary: Text mode colors
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Date: 17 Jul 90 03:09:01 GMT
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In article <3637@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> consp13@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Marcus Cannava) writes:
>	The monitor is an A1950. (BTW, does anyone know what
>the little knob on the front-left is for? (next to the power-
>switch?))

The 4-position knob only works when feeding the monitor a TTL level signal.
You can use it on an IBM-PC with a monochrome (or Hercules) adaptor to
make text show up as green or yellow instead of white on black.
It appears to not be functional on analog systems, like the Amiga.
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