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- From: cmenser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Charles Menser)
- Subject: Re: How to get rid of your Diamond Speedstar 24
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.031024.21869@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <1992Jul22.232501.27215@sinkhole.unf.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 03:10:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.232501.27215@sinkhole.unf.edu> shite@sinkhole.unf.edu (Stephen Hite) writes:
- >
- [Stuff Deleted]
- >
- > I ordered the HIColor and I got the DS 24. I called back High-Tech USA
- >in the Computer Shopper and here's how the conversation went:
- >
- >Me: I received the wrong graphics card from you. I didn't order the
- > DS 24, I ordered the DS HIColor with the 15-bit RamDac chip.
- >
- >HT: ...but it's a better card.
- >
- >Me: ...but I'm not running DOS, I'm on Unix using X and the proprietary
- > nature of the card makes it unsuitable for my purposes (namely, to
- > drive X386).
- >
- >HT: ahhh, okay...
- >
- >Me: I really don't care about the high color feature, so why don't we do
- > this...I understand you have the Orchid Prodesigner IIs. This will
- > fit my needs. Give me an RMA number, I'll send you the
- > DS 24 and you send me the OP IIs and we'll call it an even swap.
-
- Is this the EISA version of the Orchid? If not, is the EISA version an
- ET4000?
-
- >
- >HT: sounds good.
- >
- > Well, what I lose is the UPS ground to send the DS 24 to them and I want
- >them to send me the OP IIs UPS blue (about $7), so I lose $10 from the
- >original deal. I blow ten dollars hitting 2 large buckets of golf balls
- >at the driving range so I can live with this. ;-)
- >
- > I got e-mail from several people already saying that they've tried to
- >get information out of Diamond Computer about setting the clocks on
- >the DS 24 and they've gotten the cold shoulder.
- >
- > In summary, try to get a swap for the Diamond Speedstar+ or the
- >Orchid Prodesigner IIs (very common card for vendors to carry and the
- >ones from '92 have an 80 dot clock according to the X386 mode database).
- >
- > Good luck to the ones trying to figure out how to set the clocks or
- >disassembling VMODE and porrting the vital parts to GAS.
- >
- > There /is/ a HiColor version of the Orchid Prodesigner IIs but I'm
- >too chicken to get this one for fear of there being something funky
- >with that as well (then I'm back to square 1).
- >
- >Steve Hite
- >shite@sinkhole.unf.edu
-
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