The Hercules Graphics Card (HGC) is a computer graphics controller formerly made by Hercules Computer Technology, Inc. that combines IBM's text-only MDA...
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Hercules was formed in 1982 in Hercules, California, by Van Suwannukul and Kevin Jenkins and was one of the major graphics card companies of the 1980s. Its...
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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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The Hercules InColor Card (GB222) is an IBM PC compatible 8-bit ISA graphics controller card released in April 1987 by Hercules Computer Technology, Inc...
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IBM Monochrome Display Adapter (redirect from MDA card)
monochrome graphics mode. The founder of Hercules Computer Technology, Van Suwannukul, created the Hercules Graphics Card so that he could work on his doctoral...
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ATI Wonder (category Graphics cards)
based version of Mach32 known as the ATI Graphics Wonder. Chipset: ATI CW16800-A Supports: Hercules Graphics Card mode and extended 132 × 25 / 132 × 44 text-modes...
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Adapter. A few other cards were designed to work with it, such as the Hercules Graphics Card. The monitor has an 11.5-inch wide CRT (measured diagonally) with...
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Graphics Station Gold 16". COMPUTE!. No. 145. p. 118. Unger, Tom (January 15, 1991). "Hercules Graphics Station Card". PC Magazine. p. 187. "Hercules...
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IBM's first color graphics card for the IBM PC and established a de facto computer display standard. The original IBM CGA graphics card was built around...
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Motorola 6845 (category Graphics chips)
also 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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HGC can stand for: Harvard Glee Club Hercules Graphics Card HGC (field hockey), a Dutch field hockey club located in Wassenaar, South Holland on the border...
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Hercules Graphics Card, an early graphics card for the IBM PC Hercules PSU, a power supply unit for audiophile turntables de Havilland Hercules, 1920s British...
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Plantronics Colorplus and Hercules Graphics Card). It offered a monochrome 720 × 350 pixel resolution (similar to Hercules Graphics Card) and required an existing...
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had excellent monochrome graphics support for its time and specification, closely comparable to the Hercules Graphics Card for IBM PC compatible computers...
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Matrox, producer of video card components Monochrome Graphics Adapter, either related to or synonymous with the Hercules Graphics Card Multigenerational architecture...
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text-only graphics card, but the third-party Hercules Graphics Card became a popular companion to the 5151 screen because of the Hercules' comparatively...
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16-bit computer color palettes – EGA section Professional Graphics Controller Hercules InColor Card VGA compatible text mode – EGA's own modes are just a...
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enormous variety of aftermarket graphics adapters, such as the Hercules Graphics Card. The software and hardware of the PC, at release, was designed around...
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GEM (desktop environment) (redirect from Graphics Device Operating System)
IBMELFP6 IBM Enhanced Graphics Adapter HERMONP2, IBMHERP3, HERMONP6, Hercules Graphics Card (720×348) UM85C408AF UMC VGA Graphics DDIDSM IDS Monochrome...
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2023-09-20. Retrieved 2016-11-23. Elliott, John C. (2012-08-09). "Hercules Graphics Card Plus: Notes". Seasip.info. Archived from the original on 2016-11-23...
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territory beyond the last character entered did not exist. When the Hercules graphics card became popular, Samna Word gained a Print Preview mode that was...
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than the Hercules Graphics Card (720×348 monochrome). Early versions of AutoCAD were released for the Z-100 because of these advanced graphics. Aftermarket...
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A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present...
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subsequently went bankrupt or were bought out. Amongst the notable discrete graphics card vendors, AMD and Nvidia are the only ones that have lasted. In 2022...
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IBM's Monochrome Display Adapter and Enhanced Graphics Adapter as well as the Hercules Graphics Card and the original Macintosh computer generated video...
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application runs on IBM PC compatible machines, originally with Hercules graphics card. Later versions support VGA, EGA, EDA, and other graphic technologies...
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graphics controller supports 640 × 200 × 16 resolution as well as a Hercules Graphics Card-compatible, 720 × 350 mode for monochrome monitors. Sound capabilities...
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first PC video adapter card that had an option ROM was the IBM EGA, introduced in 1984 with the IBM PC AT. (The Hercules Graphics Card had no option ROM and...
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Plantronics Colorplus (category Graphics cards)
Tandy Graphics Adapter, a graphics hardware system with similar capabilities. Quadram Quadcolor Orchid Graphics Adapter Hercules Graphics Card Olivetti...
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List of home computers by video hardware (category Graphics chips)
hardware) video display controller cards, using parts like the MDA, the Hercules Graphics Card, the CGA and the EGA standard). Only after the introduction of the...
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