The Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA, also MDA card, Monochrome Display and Printer Adapter, MDPA) is IBM's standard video display card and computer display...
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its 1981 release. The 5151 was designed to work with the PC's Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA) text-only graphics card, but the third-party Hercules Graphics...
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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Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) is an IBM PC graphics adapter and de facto computer display standard from 1984 that superseded the CGA standard introduced...
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competitors: For business and word processing use, IBM provided the Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA) at the same time as CGA. MDA was much more popular than...
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Video Graphics Array (redirect from VGA adapter)
at the command prompt to redirect the output to the monochrome display. When a monochrome adapter was not present, it was possible to use the 0xB000–0xB7FF...
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Graphics card (redirect from Display adapter)
(also called a video card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a...
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Hercules Graphics Card (redirect from Monochrome Graphics Adapter)
graphics cards available: the Color Graphics Adapter (CGA) and the Monochrome Display And Printer Adapter (MDA). CGA offered low-resolution (320 × 200)...
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follows: A monochrome 2-bit palette is used on: The Monochrome Display Adapter for the IBM PC NeXT Computer, NeXTcube and NeXTstation monochrome graphic...
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transistor–transistor logic (TTL) monochrome monitor, shipped with the original IBM Personal Computer for use with the IBM Monochrome Display Adapter. A few other cards...
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a display adapter. Earlier display adapters were simple frame-buffers, but later display standards also specified a more extensive set of display functions...
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Code page 437 (section Display adapters)
stored in the ROM of the IBM Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA) and an 8×8 pixels-per-character font of the Color Graphics Adapter (CGA) cards.[citation needed]...
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matched the Apple III business computer. It was a 12″ monochrome (green) screen that could display 80×24 text characters and any type of graphics, however...
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IBM Personal Computer (section Display)
One was the IBM Printer Adapter, and the other was integrated into the MDA as the IBM Monochrome Display and Printer Adapter. The expansion capability...
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IBM PS/2 (redirect from IBM Image Adapter/A)
run unmodified whichever type of display was attached. On the other hand, whether the display was color or monochrome was undetectable to software, so...
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special display card, IBM used a stock CGA card and a 9-inch amber monochrome composite monitor, which had lower resolution. It could, however, display color...
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Tseng Labs penchant for enhancing graphics - by providing IBM Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA) and Hercules Graphics Card (HGC) compatibility along with...
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720 × 350 monochrome graphics, pixel aspect ratio of 1:1.55. Plantronics Colorplus Hercules Graphics Card IBM Monochrome Display Adapter Zussman, John...
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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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and Compaq's unique display hardware that combined Color Graphics Adapter graphics with high resolution Monochrome Display Adapter text. As a result, it...
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necessary to perform computing on the move. They had a keyboard and a monochrome LCD display built in and also had space for disposable batteries to power the...
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IBM PS/55 (section Display Adapter)
card called Display Adapter has a Japanese font containing nearly 7,000 glyphs stored in its ROM, which enables PS/2-based computers to display Japanese...
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Display Data Channel (DDC) is a collection of protocols for digital communication between a computer display and a graphics adapter that enable the display...
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Multi-Color Graphics Array (redirect from Multicolor Graphics Adapter)
standalone MCGA cards were ever made. The MCGA supports all CGA display modes plus 640 × 480 monochrome at a refresh rate of 60 Hz, and 320 × 200 with 256 colors...
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contemporary CGA (640×200 monochrome bitmap or 320×200 four-color), IBM Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA) (80×25 monochrome text-only), and with eight...
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IBM 8514 (redirect from 8514 (display standard))
(non-interlaced). 8514 usually refers to the display controller hardware (such as the 8514/A display adapter). However, IBM sold the companion CRT monitor...
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(2023) [2013]. "IBM 5150 - Early Versions: Early Cards - Monochrome Display and Printer Adapter (MDA)". minuszerodegrees.net. Archived from the original...
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architecture, a software design approach IBM Monochrome Display Adapter, a video display card and computer display standard 3,4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine,...
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configured PC XT with 256 KB of RAM, a 360 KB diskette, keyboard, monochrome monitor and adapter, and operating system comes in at about $2,860. Whitmore, Sam...
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Extended Graphics Array (category Computer display standards)
used a standardised API called the "Adapter Interface" or AI. This interface is also used by XGA, IBM Image Adapter/A, and clones of the 8514/A and XGA...
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had the option of an 80 or 120 MB hard disk size, and a 9.5" 640 × 480 monochrome screen. The 700C had a standard 120 MB hard disk size, and 4, 8 or 16 MB...
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