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- From: price@helios.unl.edu (Chad Price)
- Subject: Re: Using 1490 monitor on another machine
- Message-ID: <price.712245709@helios>
- Keywords: Zenith computers, 1490 monitor compatibility
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- Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
- References: <5932@pdxgate.UUCP> <1992Jul25.022128.23842@cs.umn.edu>
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- Date: 27 Jul 92 14:01:49 GMT
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- joiner@cs.umn.edu (Jay Joiner) writes:
-
- >In <5932@pdxgate.UUCP> h2co@odin.cc.pdx.edu (Candace O'Connor) writes:
-
- >>I can just about buy another machine for the price of the motherboard
- >>- *especially* if I can still use my 1490 monitor.
-
- >>So, what I want to do is buy another machine without monitor or floppies
- >>and use the ones I have. Does anyone know of any reason why I cannot
- >>just plug the card and 1490 monitor into a new machine?
-
- >The video card is a standard ISA VGA card that should work in any machine.
- >I have used mine in conjunction with a Western Digital 8514/A adapter
- >using the pass-through edge connector.
-
- I have an original Z-396/16 and the video card which came with it is NOT a
- standard VGA card. The original card in these was the Z-449, which is a pooly
- executed, incompatible EGA card with a VGA resolution mode which requires
- special drivers.
-
- If you have the Z-549 card you may have better luck, but if you have the Z-449,
- junk it and buy a cheap VGA clone. I bought an ATI Basic-16 VGA and it works
- fine.
-
- >The monitor will work with any standard VGA card, but not SVGA, since
- >it can only display 640x480 max. resolution. I have used the monitor with
- >a basic Paradise (i.e., Western Digital) VGA card.
- Yes - this is correct.
-
- --
- chad
- price@helios.unl.edu
- cprice@molecular.unmc.edu
-