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    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The Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) is an IBM PC graphics adapter and de facto computer display standard from 1984 that superseded the CGA standard introduced...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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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