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From: ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: VGA card from OAK for $59??
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Date: 4 Dec 90 02:24:39 GMT
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In <1990Dec3.082101.1315@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> merx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:

>Hi,
>  I have seen VGA boards from OAK for $59. Does anyone have one. I am looking
>for an 8bit board for an XT.
>Thanks,
>Mike Ray

If that's the same one I got, that's a reasonable price.  The manual
is sort of misleading in places, and you'll need to reset the switches
to run it in an 8-bit slot, but that's just about the worst things I
can say about it.  I rather think it'll drive just about any analog
monitor, if you can figure out the right switch setting.

Stuff that's not in the manual:  the board seems to handle
well-behaved hercules, cga, and ega software automatically, but if the
software *isn't* well behaved, you have to tell the board what mode it
should be in.  The correct command for this is usually obvious, but
for hercules software you want "mono" mode.
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