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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!areyes!deano
- From: deano@areyes.com (Dean Carpenter)
- Subject: Re: Could someone please identify IBM monitor 5153?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov4.145427.990@areyes.com>
- Reply-To: deano@areyes.areyes.com (Dean Carpenter)
- Organization: Areyes, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov3.230458.17304@cs.cornell.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 14:54:27 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In article <1992Nov3.230458.17304@cs.cornell.edu> jain@cs.cornell.edu (Neel K. Jain) writes:
- >
- >A friend has an IBM 5153 monitor (colour, came with an XT) and is
- >interested in knowing if it can be used with portables demanding a
- >VGA. We've got different answers from different people: some claim
- >it'll work, some claim it won't. IBM referred me to Datastream and I
- >haven't been able to get through to them.
-
- This is the original IBM Color Graphics Monitor, for CGA. It is *not*
- VGA compatible, being a ttl monitor rather than an analog one. You can
- verify this by looking at the cable end, only 9 pins instead of 15.
- Also, look at the label. It should say "IBM Color Display" or "IBM
- Personal Computer Color Display", I don't remember which.
-
- Some of the older portables had CGA type displays, and could output to
- a CGA monitor, like the one your friend has.
-
-
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- Areyes, Inc. deano@areyes.com
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