New monitors on old machines

[Chris M]

no, the 2000 has a proprietary expansion bus. Dang
wouldn't that be nice though *sniffly*

--- Geoff Reed <geoffr at zipcon.net> wrote:

> It's not stock but couldn't you use an ISA VGA card
> and monitor on it?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
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> On Behalf Of Richard A. Cini
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 5:15 PM
> To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic
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> Subject: New monitors on old machines
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> All:
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>             I have a question. I'm getting a Tandy
> 2000 that doesn't have a
> color monitor (it comes with a VM-1 monochrome).
> I've read that you could
> use a third-party (i.e., non-Tandy) color monitor
> like the old NEC
> Multi-Sync, but I was wondering if a modern VGA
> monitor could be used if I
> made a 9-pin to 15-pin adapter.
> 
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>             Thanks for any hints.
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> 
> Rich
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> Rich Cini
> 
> Collector of classic computers
> 
> Lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator
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> http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
> 
> Web site: http://www.altair32.com/ 
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