Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!tekbspa!optilink!cramer
From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Monochrome VGA Graphics Card for PC
Keywords: Mono VGA Adapter PC
Message-ID: <823@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 89 17:31:50 GMT
References: <145@icarus.kulcs.uucp.
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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In article <145@icarus.kulcs.uucp., lucb@kulcs.uucp (Luc Bomans) writes:
. 
. Hey,
. 
. My brother in law has bought an IBM XT/286 (probably one of the
. last IBM PC's sold in Belgium). The PC was delivered with an 
. VGA adapter and a monochrome IBM 8503 display (I am not completely
. sure of that number, but it is the standard PS/2 monochrome screen).
. 
. Running MS-Word we discovered that it is impossible to use the
. graphics mode of Word. This is now agreed by the IBM dealer. The
. card placed in the computer is not able to use the 8503 screen in
. graphics mode !

There's a little trick to using Microsoft Word with VGA -- you need
to add the following line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:

SET VGA=TRUE

Otherwise it assumes that you are using an EGA card, and the results
are not pretty, or even useable.

. Luc Bomans		   	mail: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 
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Clayton E. Cramer
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