[K12OSN] advice on surplus hardware

Fri Jul 29 02:00:10 UTC 2005

On 7/28/05, John Baillie <jbaillie at stmarys-school.org> wrote:
> We started out with the same specs on our first 20 terminals. We used
> the rom-o-matic boot floppies. The existing video cards were 2MB. We
> added 8mb pci video cards to them and it made a huge difference.  I just
> did a quick google and I see they are still selling for about 24.00.
> Look for Jaton Trident 9880 8MB PCI.

4mb is the magic amount for 1024x768 @ 24bit color.

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Robert Arkiletian
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