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From: DSB100@psuvm.psu.edu (David Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: PS/2 Model 30 viedo Upgrade
Message-ID: <90315.084206DSB100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 11 Nov 90 13:42:06 GMT
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In article <1990Nov11.040110.942@rodan.acs.syr.edu>, amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu
(Allen J Michielsen) says:

>In article <90312.151015DSB100@psuvm.psu.edu> DSB100@psuvm.psu.edu
(David Barr)  {Me}
[... I talk about my klunky Model 30 and upgrading the video ...]

>   The operative jargon here is MCGA, I thought it stood for MONO + CGA.
>Meaning it has limited Mono type VGA compatability and capabilities, but
>only CGA color capabilities.  Therefore, putting a color monitor on it
>will result in pc-5150 era graphics compatability....
>al
  MCGA<>Mono+CGA.  The MCGA has the following video modes:
(not necessarily complete, this is from memory)
  All CGA modes
  No EGA modes *snif*
  320x200x256  <-----
  640x480x2

True, it is a lot like the CGA, (and is barely better than one) but
putting a color monitor on an MCGA sounds like a wise investment to me,
even if it is for that one mode.  It's a shame IBM chooses to constantly
pull sh*t like this by making "new" standards which are clearly sub-standard
and destined to fail.  (PC jr, PGA, the Model 25/30 with the slowest hard
drive in the world {85ms? at 4:1}, the PS/1)

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