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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: graphics board info wanted
Message-ID: <1254@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Apr-84 23:37:58 EST
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.1254
Posted: Wed Apr 11 23:37:58 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Apr-84 01:54:46 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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I'm looking for a graphics board to put on an XT.  What I really want
is a single board that will serve as either an IBM monochrome board
or an IBM color board, at the flip of a switch and change of a monitor.
(It would be nice to have graphics on a monochrome monitor, too, but
this is not essential.)  I intend to run several different operating
systems on the XT (Venix/86 primarily, but also QNX and MS-DOS) for
which I won't have sources, so I can't install somebody's MS-DOS patch
to make a board work.  (I gather this rules out the STB board.)
I initially intend to use it in monochrome mode with an Amdek 310A
monitor (which looks like a IBM monochrome monitor to the machine.)
I would also like it to not flicker on the color monitor when the
screen scrolls (the IBM color board does with some software.)

There are a number of boards out there: STB Graphics Plus; PC Comp
Bigraphics; Paradise; Plantronics Colorplus; Quadram Quadcolor;
Amdek MAI; Multigraph; USI; Tecmar.  My information on them is limited to
what's printed in PC magazine (e.g. the product name and price).
I would appreciate hearing (by mail, I'll summarize) from users of
these boards.  How do you like it?  Is it plug compatible or did you
have to patch MS-DOS (apparently a change to AUTOEXEC.BAT is needed
to initialize a mode to something other than garbage in the STB and
the TecMar?)

Also, where is Keytronics located?  The order-taker-types for the two
ads mentioning them can barely tie their own shoelaces, much less tell
me where to call for literature.

	"Thanks in advance"

	Mark Horton
	mark@cbosgd.UUCP (cbosgd!mark)
	mark@Berkeley.ARPA