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Subject: Re: TP5 and SIGMA-400 graphics
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Date: 21 Dec 89 01:07:47 GMT
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>renata@eos (Daniel Delgado) writes:
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>>   Our lab has a strange graphics card (SIGMA 400).  It is
>>   a cga card but it does have a hi res mode.  Does anybody
>>   know of a way to use it with Turbo Pascal 5.0 so that
>>   one can access the hi res?
>
  I came on this article a bit late so I didn't see the original
  note, but the SIGMA COLOR 400 card is not that strange.

  In fact it seemed to be a card ahead of it's time, back before
  any real high res "standards" existed...ie before ega and vga.

  The card is an antique, but it did have the ability to display
  graphics in 16 colors in 640 X 400 mode and was impressive with
  a high (for the time) scan rate monitor (25.5 kHz to 31.5 kHz).

  The card was great for text applications with a Taxan 640 monitor.
  Enough of the cards were sold that a number of
  graphics packages still support the card.

  The computer I am using (old 8088 system) has this same card, and
  I still get comments concerning the "great" resolution the system
  has...but then again the card and monitor were well matched, even
  if they do date from 1985.

  But if somebody wants to trade me a vga card and monitor.....