Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!amdahl!nsc!csi!jwhitnel From: jwhitnel@csi.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Composite and RGB on single CGA card Message-ID: <1498@csib.csi.UUCP> Date: 5 May 88 17:52:23 GMT References: Reply-To: jwhitnel@csib.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell) Organization: Communications Solutions Inc., San Jose, Ca Lines: 19 Keywords: CGA, monitors (2) In article msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) writes: >I need a way to run two monitors with the same information off of a >single computer, with one monitor about 40 feet away from the >computer. I'd like to buy a clone to replace the current PS/2, >but the company that does the purchasing says that 30' away from the >computer is too far for the composite output of the CGA card. > >Are they just trying to sell me another computer for the profit? Are >they correct? More importantly, is anyone doing this now? Inmac, a distributor of computer supplies, has an extender box for PCs to color graphics, I think. My catalog is at home so I don't have any details, but give them a call. I don't even have a number for them, sorry. >Mark Jerry Whitnell Been through Hell? Communication Solutions, Inc. What did you bring back for me? - A. Brilliant