-=> Quoting mark lewis to Leonard Erickson <=-

 LE> I wish I'd grabbed some old Compaq TTL mono displays years
 LE> back when I had a chance. You see, they got power (5 & 12
 LE> volts?) from a 3-pin DIN connector on the back of the old
 LE> Compaq Deskpro 286 systems.

 ml> i believe i have two or three of those around here... you wanna pay
 ml> shipping? you can have the monitors and the machines... i know that
 ml> one of them was in working order some years back > 

Just hang onto them. I need to get rid of a bunch of old gear before I
acquire *more* old gear.

 LE> Of course, even with one of those monitors, you'd be limited
 LE> to Herc & mono EGA modes (yes, there's an EGA mode designed
 LE> for Herc type monitors).

 ml> so i remember >

Yeah, when we first got VGA at the company I was doing microcomputer
support for, they went for the cheap mono vga monitors. And we ran into
a few programs that didn't know about that and decided that they were
mono EGA. 


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