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Making a microcontroller speak to a VGA monitor has been a consistent project in our sphere for years, doing the job for which an IBM PC of yore required a plug-in ISA card. Couldn’t a microc… ...
Old-school Macintosh-to-VGA adapter. Just solve for X, set the right DIP switches and you’re golden. If you’re the happy owner of a vintage Apple system like a 1989 Macintosh IIci you may ...
I have an old CRT. I think it's an Apple Multiple Scan 15 (I'm away from home so I can't check). It came with a Power Mac 6100/66 and required an adapter to ...
The VGA port, the connection that's bridged computers to their monitors almost from the birth of the PC industry, is on its way out. Chip manufacturers Intel and AMD, with backing from various ...
I have a laptop and a TV and tried using an HDMI to VGA adapter thinking it would show on my TV or laptop but its not working. ... people are selling their old, crappy, VGA monitors for around $15-30.
The 15-pin VGA port is a very old standard, originally arriving with the 1987 IBM PS/2 PC. This analog output doesn’t support as high resolutions and refresh rates as its modern rivals, ...
Even the venerable VGA standard – originally developed by IBM for its PS/2 computers – is on its way out, soon to disappear from modern laptops sold in the country.
The BOOK 8088 is one of the weirdest laptops to launch in 2023.It’s a budget mini-laptop with a 7 inch display, a QWERTY keyboard… and the guts of a 40-year old computer including a Intel 8088 ...