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From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: need 1024x768 monitor, advice about using it with herc
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.151832.20155@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 91 15:18:32 GMT
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Organization: Oklahoma State University
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From article <1991Mar10.203542.27095@news.iastate.edu>, by i1neal@exnet.iastate.edu (Neal Rauhauser -- ):
> 
> 
>         I've suddenly found myself with $800 I didn't plan on having,
> looks like its time for a new monitor. I currently have a slightly
> psychotic hercules monitor. I'd like to use the windows/code view
> combination, but I'm not sure exactly how to go about it - been
> developing with toolbook (choke! puke! dBase DLL needs a visit
> from an exterminator) and actor, and I'd like to move into some sort
> of OO C environment. Anyway, heres the plan now ...
> 
> 
>       DFI VGA card with Trident chipset + 512k of ram - where I shop
>       these things are $104. Not as cool as the orchid card, but
>       50% of the cost.
> 
>       NEC multisync 3D. I've seen these in use, and like 'em a lot.
>       If theres something cheap that works as well, I'd go for it,
>       but I've found skimping on hardware always bites you in the ass,
>       sooner or later.

Well, for the price of 3D (lowest I found is about $600), you can get a
Swan VGA 15.  I saw the ad in Computer Shoppers magazine for $599.  It is
15" compared to 14" of 3D; it is also non-interlaced 1024x768 instead of
interlaced of the 3D.  There are also some other options like the
Goldstar 16" VGA interlaced 1024x768 for $623 from USA-FLEX or
the Sumsang 17" VGA non-interlaced 1024x768 for about $890 from the 
same company.  In any case please let us know what you did and what is
the result.

As for VGA cards, I have seen many poeple going to Tsang ET3000/4000
chipset card, which is used by many VGA boards including Cardinal, and
it has 1Mb onboard allowing 1024x768x256 interlaced or noninterlaced.  In
the office, we have 1024x768x256 working in Window 3.0 and in
WordPerfect 5.1 using the 8514/A software emulation.

Good luck!