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- From: jmeyers@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jeff Meyers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Advice on Diamond Speedstar
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- Date: 7 Jan 93 00:09:27 GMT
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- In article <MORGAN.93Jan6161750@dl5000.bc.edu> morgan@dl5000.bc.edu (Morgan Stair) writes:
- >
- > I can get a Diamond Speedstar 24X for $150. Should I do it? Is it
- >a good card. I don't know that much about hardware, so I don't want
- >to get stuck with a troublesome card.
-
- Yes it is a good card, but currently they have some problems with their
- 256 color drivers. There have been specific problems with Word for Windows
- and Works for Windows, probably others. Diamond support staff says that
- there are new drivers in the works, but they have no ETA.
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