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From: woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: TP5 and SIGMA-400 graphics
Message-ID: <5861@eos.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 89 20:22:33 GMT
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Reply-To: woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood)
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In article <89354.200747DRF6@PSUVM.BITNET> DRF6@PSUVM.BITNET writes:
>>
>  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.
>
>  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).
>
yes, but we are doinbg real time applications and need to switch pages
in hires mode... neat trick with only a single page...

>  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.
>

see above... we don't need great looking text... we need superfast
graphics...

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

i have six of the damned things... and truly *need* the vga cards...
we may have to fight over this...

BTW... Dan is my supervisor... he might not see this posting until
its removed from our news-server... so what he doesn't know won't
hurt me...

:-) :-)


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