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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!not-for-mail From: eric@fudge.uchicago.edu (Eric Fischer) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: What's a "Toby" video card? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: fudge.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <DzEHG0.M8@midway.uchicago.edu> Keywords: Toby Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services References: <53fk43$rv6@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> <543b75$ijm@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 03:24:00 GMT Lines: 13 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.mac.hardware.video:13566 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4750 Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> wrote: > Thanks to everyone for telling me that a "Toby" card is the original Mac II > color video card. I even got a very generous offer of one from someone > who has one and isn't using it. Now if I can just find out if it will, > indeed, run X11 in color on it, and if it can drive a larger monitor at a > higher res. It can do *slightly* higher than 640x480 -- the old MaxAppleZoom extension pushed it to its maximum resolution. But it only supports the one sync rate intended for the 13" color or 12" mono display. Eric