As best as I can remember the history a DVI was an expensive little box, when they first came out. The biggest problem is the cable end connecting to the M100 system bus is a rather fragile 40 pin DIP. Mine has 2 broken pins now. Then came the M102 and M200 and a new connector, but then none of the after market products that used the M100 bus would work with the new M102 or M200.
There was an after market video interface, Kolor Kwik (I think), written about in Portable 100 Magazine. The author released a product based on the article which aloud the M100 to be attached to a VGA monitor, but no storage. Some other company released a similar product based on a submission from someone for development and those plans may have been based on the information in the article with some minor changes. Some kind of battle ensued. In the end DVI or other was a rather expensive addition at the time. When I finally got my DVI they were being discontinued and dumped from stores that had them for $99. I was so happy, until I tried to use Lucid on the DVI with a Tandy VM-2 Monitor. It was not pretty. If anyone has any corrections to this chime in please. God Bless, GregS <>< ----- Original Message ----- From: "james zeun" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 1:20:31 PM Subject: Re: [M100] Ask a silly question Hmm I would have loved to hook my M100 up to a monitor. Is there a modern equivalent. Sent from my iPad > On 24 Jul 2018, at 9:06 pm, Gregory McGill <[email protected]> wrote: > > Pretty rare my buddy that worked at rs says he only sold a couple the entire > time he was there > >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018, 12:26 PM <[email protected]> wrote: >> Oh! Well I've owned my M100 for years now and I had never seen the DVI. Are >> these rare? What advantages does this give over a stock M100 with a floppy >> drive? I gave a REX in mine, worth its weight in gold! >> >> Thanks for the replies guys, I still ashamed I didn't know what DVI was. >> >> Are these rare? Do many on the group have them? >> >> >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>> On 24 Jul 2018, at 8:12 pm, Kurt McCullum <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> DVI = Disk Video Interface. It expanded the 100 or 200 with a 180k 5.25" >>> disk drive and an external monitor. Attaches to the system bus and has it's >>> own DOS. >>> >>> Kurt >>> >>> >>>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018, at 12:07 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>>> Perhaps I missed the memo, but I'm not familiar with DVI. Other than it >>>> being a firm video output. >>>> >>>> What is DVI in relation to the M100? >>>
