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From: aaron@inuxg.UUCP (Jeffrey Walters)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: New color card: 256 colors on a PC!
Message-ID: <407@inuxg.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 14:56:38 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 28 14:56:38 1985
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Organization: AT&T Consumer Products, Indianapolis
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> > Hmmm... 256 out of 32K colors on a standard PC color display?  Sounds
> > interesting.  I wonder if they're working on a higher resolution version
> > that would run on the EGS (256 by 350 pixels, perhaps?)
>  
> No, on a color composite video monitor or analog RGB display.  It's
> impossible to display more than 16 colors on an IBM-CGA-compatible
> monitor or 64 colors on an Enhanced Color Display: the RGB signals
> are digital, not analog, and there are only 4 separate inputs 
> (or 6, for the ECD).  
> -- 
> /Steve Dyer
> {harvard,seismo}!bbnccv!bbncc5!sdyer
> sdyer@bbncc5.ARPA

WRONG Steve:
	The new graphics card from AT&T's Electronic Photography
	and Imaging Center (EPICenter) does display 256 colors 
	(from 32K - color map) on the standard digital RGB PC 
	color display.

	If anyone would like more information on the products offered
	by EPICenter please mail your name, address (US Mail) and 
	phone number to ...ihnp4!inuxa!inuxg!epic.


Jeffrey A. Walters
Operations Manager
EPICenter

Please do not send mail to me for information requests but send to the
above address (...ihnp4!inuxa!inuxg!epic).