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From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Commodore Amiga monitor -> CGA? EGA? VGA?
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.011105.18750@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 90 01:11:05 GMT
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In article <43693@cci632.UUCP> sjo@cci632.UUCP (Steve Owens) writes:
>In article <1990Nov27.161816.4411@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, jtt@cunixd.cc.
>> I've got an old Amiga monitor model 1080, the kind that supports both
>> analog and digital RGB at the flick of a switch. What can I do with this
>> object? Will it hook up to an EGA card? 
>	I'm also interested.  I have the Sony TV/Monitor that is equivalent
>to this (1302 or 1311?  I can't remember the number...) and would *love* to
>use this on my 386SX system.

   Those old monitor are almost always close enough to CGA's to be compatible,
but the h & V holds may need a tweek of da knob.
   They should work with most of the aftermarket EGA & VGA cards which allow
you to setup it up towork with a CGA monitor.  (Of course the graphics then 
is only basically CGA....)
al

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