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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: AT&T 6300 Color Monitors
Message-ID: <539@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Apr-87 11:13:53 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  6 11:13:53 1987
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Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Summary: Taxan 640


I think the off the shelf monitor you'd want for the AT&T 6300 is
the Taxan-640.  The model 640 does the double-scanned video that is
put out by the 6300.  The colors in text are very nice and the
characters are very shrap (I've been using a 640 for a while).  Of
course, you still "only" get CGA and 2-color 640*400 graphics.

Getting an EGA card can be a little more problematic if you have an
older 6300.  The newer 6300s with ROM Diagnostics 1.43 can readily
accept an EGA card.  Just make sure the two vertically oriented
jumpers (there are also two horizonal jumpers) are on their bottom
two pins.  It should find the EGA card without any problems.  We've
used a Paradise PEGA-II autoswitch card without incident.  Seems
like a saw a very competitively priced deal that bundled an
autoswitch card with a Taxan 760 (which is a pretty good
non-multisync monitor); check computer shopper.  Oh yes, I was
talking about the jumpers on the indigenous video card.

On older 6300s, you have to do a minor hardware mod to disable the
indigenous video board.  That's been described on the net.  I'll
let somebody from AT&T answer that question.

  --Bill  (wtm@neoucom.UUCP)