On Sunday 03 November 2024 05:10:46 pm Dave_G0WBX via groups.io wrote:
Hi.
I'm fairly sure, if you search the usual web auction sites, you'll find
gadgets that can take EGA (& even CGA or analogue composite Video) inputs,
and spit out VGA signals for any of the still common LCD VGA monitors.
I have one such, but forget where I got it from.
It was not expensive either. But it is an EMI nightmare. (Mainly due to
the cheap Chinesium power supply!)
There are also VGA or "Display Port" to HDMI port powered converters too.
The one that really got my attention was one where you had various kinds of video input (VGA, HDMI, etc.) and the output went to a flat panel display, like you'd salvage from a laptop computer. Unfortunately you had to tell the seller which specific display you had, and then they'd program it for you, and it was only useful with that particular panel.
I'd like it a lot better if I could program the damn thing myself, having a whole pile of junk laptops around here. If anyone knows where such can be had, I'd sure like to hear about it.
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
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