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From: doron@oboe.cs.cornell.edu (Leor Doron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Monochrome monitor with CGA card
Keywords: monochrome, CGA, Epson
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Date: 23 Jan 91 10:58:15 GMT
References: <1546@digi.lonestar.org>
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In article <1546@digi.lonestar.org> mfrohman@digi.lonestar.org (Matthew Frohman) writes:
>I have an Epson Equity LT laptop that has a CGA screen.  It has
>a CRT port in the back that I would like to hook up a monochrome
>monitor to.  Is there any way to do it?  I originally didn't
>think so, but a friend has a desktop computer (Hyundai) with a
>CGA card and he has an amber monitor hooked up to it that works
>fine.  Any ideas?

Some monochrome monitors are "dual-mode", that is, they support the scanning
frequencies of both the MDA/HGC and CGA adapters.  These don't cost much more
than regular monochrome monitors -- not a bad deal.  Offhand, I can think
of the Samsung MZ-4571 (I *think* that's the model number) as being one I've
heard good things about, and costing ~$100.

--Lee

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