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From: alexande@drivax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Hercules Clones (was Re: IBM PC as a terminal)
Message-ID: <1748@drivax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 14:51:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: drivax.1748
Posted: Wed Jun  3 14:51:15 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jun-87 06:39:06 EDT
References: <1149@carthage.swatsun.UUCP> <8601@tekecs.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: alexande@drivax.UUCP (Mark Alexander)
Organization: Bob-ist Temple of Monterey
Lines: 16
Summary: They look OK to me

In article <2580@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
>Herc mono is sort-of; the clone versions I've seen
>use the CGA character set, which is a lossage (and worse because it looked
>like they were skipping scan lines to simulate the CGA character size in
>pixels).  I would hope that a good model would use a readable character set
>and use full resolution in text mode.

That's funny ... every Herc clone I've seen in computer stores in Silicon
Valley had the nice high-res IBM-style character set (including
the Zuckerboard I bought).  Maybe you were looking at one of those
fancy-dancy boards that emulates the CGA on a TTL monochrome monitor,
and it happened to be in CGA mode (the Everex Edge is one such beast).
I'm sure that in Herc mode all would be fine. 
-- 
Mark Alexander	...{hplabs,seismo,sun,ihnp4}!amdahl!drivax!alexande
"Bob-ism: the Faith that changes to meet YOUR needs." -- Bob