On Wed, 19 May 1999, David Murn wrote:
> On Mon, 17 May 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
>
> > > 1. IBM MDA.
> > no graphics support...
>
> Ummmmmm, are you sure? We used to run windows 3.0 on amber monochrome
> monitors at college.
It's not that the monitors wouldn't work, but that the mono cards
origionally sold by IBM were text only (I'm sure there were other clones
as well). I'm not 100% sure what the history of mono graphics is, but I
know that Hercules was a very proular monochrome graphics adaptor...that's
what my first computer had, and I suspect they were one of the first, and
that many of the other monochrome graphics cards were simply made
compatable with the Hercules.
Dan
