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From: ed@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Ed Friedman)
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Subject: Any CGA experts still around?
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Date: 11 May 91 16:59:35 GMT
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I have recently acquired for next to nothing an IBM 3270 PC with a 5272
color monitor.  The problem is that although colors work fine on the
monitor, no graphics show up at all.  System info claims that CGA is in
place, but when I tried replacing the graphics card with  a standard CGA
card I saw nothing but garbage on the screen.  A call to IBM revealed that
the ROM's are not able to recognize graphics calls, but I was wondering if
anyone knows of a 3rd party board that might have been built to work around
this problem.

Thanks in advance,

Ed Friedman

INTERNET: ed@zaphod.uchicago.edu