Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Monitor question

wanliker@... wrote:

>Setting up a computer for the shop, strictly DOS, with TurboCNC on it for
>now, 450 MHZ..
>My question: Can I use a modern LCD monitor on a old DOS computer? I assume
>in SVGA, or VGA mode.
>

Maybe. Most LCDs do a fair job of the basic 25 x 80 character screen, since
everybody sees that at boot time. Some of them do a horrible job of 640
x 480
basic VGA mode, others do very well. The price or size isn't necessarily an
indicator of this either, I've seen some larger expensive ones that were
just
horrible at 640 x 480, with jitter, fuzzy and flickering letters, etc.

I have a 19" Viewsonic here that works well at all the standard video modes.
I seem to remember that a 14" Dell that we have at work doesn't handle
some video modes well. I can't answer for the specific monitor you mention,
but 640 x 480 doesn't interpolate cleanly into 1024 x 768, that's for sure.
640 x 480 doubles up to 1280 x 960, leaving some blank lines top and bottom,
for instance, on a 1280 x 1024 screen. 800 x 600 also doesn't
imterpolate well
into anything else. I sure wouldn't buy anything mail-order unless you can
check the exact model in the modes you want at a store somewhere.

Jon