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On 6/10/2006 at 4:35 PM Fred Cisin wrote: Because if I had to read the darned text for more than an hour or two, I was going to go blind. 0.31 mm (or was it 0.38 mm?) color dot pitch makes for some really bad looking text. Compared to CGA, the MDA text was postively wonderful--and let's face it, on the PC, what does one write programs in--text or graphics mode? When I got the Sony, I think the dot pitch was 0.25mm which, while still not up to monochrome, was passable. With my nystagmus, display deficiencies are magnified. I think that's the way most folks would probably use it if they didn't spring for an IBM CGA monitor or equivalent. Wasn't that the point of the CGA anyway? Seems to me there's even a diagram of that in one of the manuals (the maroon installation one?). But still no comparison to MDA on a monochrome monitor in terms of display and font quality. I couldn't imagine installing a PC with CGA in an office for, say, word processing on an 8-hour per day basis. That would have been just plain sadistic. And if you needed graphics, Hercules (or clones thereof) was very nice. True, the MDA text mode wouldn't let you change the font, but then there was the Herc Graphics Plus card, which gave you quite a bit of downloadable font memory. Cheers, Chuck