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From: terry@wolves.uucp (Terry L Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Mono Monitor with VGA card?
Message-ID: <1990Aug10.203858.15781@wolves.uucp>
Date: 10 Aug 90 20:38:58 GMT
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In <1203@mtunq.ATT.COM> psrc@mtunq.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes:

>In article <6053@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600kjp@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Kevin Phillips) writes:
>> . . . right now my system uses a Hercules-compatible Monochrome
>> graphics card, but I would like to expand my system to a VGA card.
>> Is it possible to use my current monitor as a greyscale monitor with
>> a VGA card?

>No.
Yes, it is.  The ATI VGA Wonder will work with a monochrome TTL monitor.

>MDA and HGA compatible monitors are called "TTL monitors", for the
>interface they use.  (Only monochrome monitors have this kind of
There are monochrome TTL monitors, but CGA and EGA monitors are 
RGB.

>are.)  TTL monitors can't display shades of gray.  VGA cards need

That is incorrect.  TTL monitors are capable of displaying shades of
gray.  I used an ATI EGA Wonder on my TTL mono monitor for two years
and it displayed the EGA colors as shades of grey just fine.  It is
not a limitation of the monitor, but most video cards.


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