Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!PEARSON@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA From: PEARSON@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Z-100 Graphics Card for PC Message-ID: <263@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Jul-84 17:18:10 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.263 Posted: Tue Jul 17 17:18:10 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 23-Jul-84 01:53:49 EDT Lines: 21 From: William Pearson The new Heathkit catalog, which I got today, mentions the "NEW Z-319 Assembled Video Card which plugs into Personal and Portable Computers to provide high resolution, 8-color, 640 x 225 pixel mapped graphics. Emulates H-100 video attributes and uses mapping to functionally emulate the keys of an H-100 keyboard." This sounds very nice, as the Z-100 display is much much better than the IBM-PC graphics display, and has 8-color high resolution. I called Heath to ask if it would work on an IBM-PC (it's designed for Zenith's Z-150 series) and got the answer that 1) it's not out yet (expect in about a month) and 2) yes, it should be compatible with the IBM-PC, but not certain. I suspect unmodified PC-DOS won't drive the card. If Zenith had many smarts, they would make it PC-compatible, since there are many more IBM-PC's than Zenith PC's, but getting the software from them for an IBM might be tricky. Price: $ 499.