The Color Graphics Adapter (CGA), originally also called the Color/Graphics Adapter or IBM Color/Graphics Monitor Adapter, introduced in 1981, was IBM's...
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The Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) is an IBM PC graphics adapter and de facto computer display standard from 1984 that superseded the CGA standard introduced...
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replacing the DE-9 used by previous graphics adapters. IBM later released the standalone IBM PS/2 Display Adapter, which utilized the VGA but could be...
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The Multi-Color Graphics Array or MCGA is a video subsystem built into the motherboard of the IBM PS/2 Model 30, introduced in April 1987, and Model 25...
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offered pixel-addressable graphics, so despite lacking color capability, the Hercules adapter's offer of high resolution bitmap graphics combined with MDA-grade...
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Professional Graphics Controller (PGC, often called Professional Graphics Adapter and sometimes Professional Graphics Array) is a graphics card manufactured...
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Tandy Graphics Adapter (TGA, also Tandy graphics) is a computer display standard for the Tandy 1000 series of IBM PC compatibles, which has compatibility...
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available: the Color Graphics Adapter (CGA) and the Monochrome Display And Printer Adapter (MDA). CGA offered low-resolution (320 × 200) color graphics and medium-resolution...
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A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially...
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640 × 480: graphics mode with 256 colors at once (8-bit) out of 262,144 (18-bit RGB palette); graphics with 65,536 colors at once (16-bit "high color"); text...
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graphics standards using this RGBI mode include: IBM's original Color Graphics Adapter. IBM's Enhanced Graphics Adapter, in CGA modes "Tandy graphics"...
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requires turning off the "blinking attribute". ANSI escape code Color Graphics Adapter Int 10h/AX=1003 Ralf Brown's Interrupt List, online version "Multiplayer:...
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Except for a few well known fixed-color palettes (such as that of the Color Graphics Adapter—CGA), raw image data and/or color map tables cannot be reliably...
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Mindset (computer) (redirect from Mindset Graphics Computer)
allowing it to update the screen 50 times as fast as an IBM standard color graphics adapter. The basic unit was priced at US$1,798 (equivalent to $5,440 in...
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each color, and color order is arbitrary. Systems that used this palette scheme: IBM's original Color Graphics Adapter IBM's Enhanced Graphics Adapter, in...
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IBM 8514 (category Graphics cards)
speed of redrawing a graphics visual (such as a pie-chart or CAD-illustration). The 8514 initially sold for $1290 for the adapter and $270 for the 512 KB...
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derivatives. IBM introduced a 16-color scheme (4 bits—1 bit each for red, green, blue, and intensity) with the Color Graphics Adapter (CGA) for its IBM PC in 1981...
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Motorola 6845 (category Graphics chips)
part of many early graphics adapter cards for the IBM PC, including the MDA, Hercules Graphics Card (HGC), Color Graphics Adapter (CGA) and the Plantronics...
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graphics card as an option for the MPC. A clone of IBM's Color Graphics Adapter (CGA), CDP's card is capable of displaying 1-bit monochrome graphics at...
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This article lists computer monitor, television, digital film, and other graphics display resolutions that are in common use. Most of them use certain preferred...
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Pricing started at $1,565 for a configuration with 16 KB RAM, Color Graphics Adapter, keyboard, and no disk drives. The price was designed to compete...
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of Graphics File Formats". Fileformat.info. Retrieved 2016-07-23. Hart, Glenn A.; Forney, Jim (1985-02-19). "Video Board Reviews: Persyst BoB Color Adapter"...
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unique display hardware that combined Color Graphics Adapter graphics with high resolution Monochrome Display Adapter text. As a result, it was considerably...
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with the IBM Monochrome Display Adapter. A few other cards were designed to work with it, such as the Hercules Graphics Card. The monitor has an 11.5-inch...
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List of computer display standards (redirect from Extended Graphics Adaptor)
with the screen resolution and refresh rate is a display adapter. Earlier display adapters were simple frame-buffers, but later display standards also...
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full-height 10 MB drives. Submodel 788 was the only XT sold with the Color Graphics Adapter as a standard feature. Submodels 568, 588, and 589 were used as...
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Computer monitor (redirect from Color Monitor)
quality. Lagging several years behind, in 1981 IBM introduced the Color Graphics Adapter, which could display four colors with a resolution of 320 × 200...
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BMP file format (category Raster graphics file formats)
is a raster graphics image file format used to store bitmap digital images, independently of the display device (such as a graphics adapter), especially...
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Code page 437 (section Display adapters)
Display Adapter (MDA) and an 8×8 pixels-per-character font of the Color Graphics Adapter (CGA) cards.[citation needed] The IBM Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA)...
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announced the IBM 5100, it also announced the IBM 5100 Communications Adapter, which allowed the 5100 to transmit data to and receive data from a remote...
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