On 1999-06-24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Yes, it seems that EGA was around for only one, or at most, two
>years before IBM's VGA came out. ( I could be wrong, but I don't
>think that IBM ever bothered with CGA. IBMs seemed to go straight
>from green mono to EGA.)
I have what I believe to be an original IBM CGA card for my 5150 PC. It
certainly look original to me.
>The vast quantity of CGAs produced were due, no doubt, to the
>availability of the 6845 video controller chip. Almost anyone
>could build a CGA card using an off-the-shelf chip, rather than
>spend big bucks developing a better graphics card. ( Some mfgs did,
>of course - but its funny: many of them are not around anymore, or
>are minor players, today. STB comes to mind.)
I think STB made a comeback during the last 2 years, with the Velocity
series of cards. Best Buy carries, or carried STB cards. For some odd
reason STB just started reselling somebody elses cards, or at least that is
how it appears. Those "VooDoo" cards that have no other name on them are
being marketed by STB, but I don't think are built by them. Stuff like that
doesn't make me very happy.
STB also has a "specialty" division that does video cards for dual monitors
that I believe is something that they have cornered.
They used to make memory cards too, I have one for my IBM PC 5150.
Chad A. Fernandez
Battle Creek, MI
Net-Tamer V 1.12 Beta - Test Drive
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