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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: NEC Multisync, GB-1 graphic board
Message-ID: <879@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 87 16:56:49 GMT
References: <1180@cg-atla.UUCP>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Summary: NEC GB-1 complaints


We bought a GB-1.  We had problems with the EGA graphics.  We
contacted Tseng Labs who makes the board for NEC.  Tseng sent us a
new ROM which cured several problems.  Tseng did this quite out of
the goodness of their hearts, and thus can not be counted on as a
solution.  NEC is supposed to have ugraded the ROMS on newer GB-1s.

We never did get the Hercules emulation to work right, but then
this is a problem on most EGA cards that claim Hercules
capabilities.

The Paradise autoswitch EGA is probalby the best price/value EGA
card.  It is also very well manufactured.  The NSI EGA Wonder is
also a reasonable card, but is not partiularly advantagous when
used with an multisync type monitor.

Yes, the NECs can do VGA, but I don't really like the NEC monitors
as I previously noted.  I can say this from a detached position, as
I have used the NEC monitor that this letter is being composed on
for more than a year.


-Bill