11 Jun
2006
11 Jun
'06
1:35 a.m.
>> Describe me a CGA board on that media
;o)
>> Yuck!!!
>> I can't remeber anything I liked about CGA?
>
>It produced composite [almost] NTSC video, and therefore provided
>a way to use a PC without buying an IBM monitor.
>($100 v $600)
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Chuck Guzis wrote:
You mean like an Atari 400/800 or an Apple ][[?
or TRS80
Wait--you had to buy a modulator for the CGA. When I
saw the 80x25 text
display of the CGA (on an IBM monitor), I decided that color wasn't for me.
WHY?
It has a phono jack on the outside for NTSC; just connect that to a cheap
B&W CCTV monitor.
It ALSO had a 4 pin (minus one for keying) berg plug on the inside that
was exactly right for a SupRMod][, but why degreade the signal by RF'ing
it, and then tuning it back in?
One thing that held the wholesale adoption of color
back was the generally
lousy quality of the CRTs available at the time. Most were designed for
broadcast viewing and had a very coarse dot pitch which made things like
text unpleasant to read.
B&W was substantially better. (Mode 2)
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com