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Cheap monochrome monitors

Lovely monitors, too bad I'm in another half of Earth. The amber monitor only could display amber?
 
GottaLottaStuff said:
The amber one is composite. It would be amber only and text would be fuzzy on most of them. I didn't know a CGA card would run a 9-pin MDA monitor.
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I'm very confused about MDA/CGA cards or monitors, never get it right... Once I've seen a green monitor that ran green on a CGA card, and the same green monitor ran white with a MDA card....
 
lucasdaytona said:
I'm very confused about MDA/CGA cards or monitors, never get it right... Once I've seen a green monitor that ran green on a CGA card, and the same green monitor ran white with a MDA card....
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That's pretty weird. A true monochrome monitor only has one phosphor capable to emit a single color - white, green, or amber most usually. Nokia made some nice blue ones, I seem to recall. Probably the one you refer to was a CGA color monitor being driven by monchrome adapters or non-standard adapters?

Rick
 
GottaLottaStuff said:
I didn't know a CGA card would run a 9-pin MDA monitor.
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For the sake of others down the track reading these threads to establish facts:
1. If the CGA card is the IBM one, then it will not drive an MDA-only monitor.
2. If the CGA card is non-IBM, and can only output CGA signals, then it will not drive an MDA-only monitor.
3. If the CGA card is non-IBM, and can be configured to output either CGA or MDA, then, configured for MDA, it will drive an MDA-only monitor.
 
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