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From: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Subject: Re: Monitor question
Message-ID: <9008170224.AA22087@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu>
Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department
References: <1990Aug15.002221.13889@tippy> <1990Aug16.204206.12651@math.lsa.umich.edu>
Date: 17 Aug 90 02:28:29 GMT
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In article <1990Aug15.002221.13889@tippy>  writes:
>Service Merchandise has the Packard Bell Paper-white VGA monitor on sale 
>for $120. I was thinking about replacing my SM124 monitor with this. (It
>offers higher resolution than the Atari monitor.)
>Has anyone tried this? Can some of you techies out there tell me if it 
>will work? 
>Thanks in advance - roger
>
  You may have a hard time running this monitor at 70Hz, which is needed to 
perfectly emulate a SM124.  You can use a multi-sync monitor, with an appro-
priate interface.  If you figure out a way to use a regular VGA monitor with
an ST, please post it!!


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