First post, by tokroger
Well, situation is like this.. Place where I work, there's an old PC, 286-12 MHz, with 8-bit ISA graphics card, CGA/EGA i think, there´s a 9 pin connector. There's also parallerport built on graphics card. There's also super I/O-card on another ISA-slot and on that card is paraller and serialports.
Machine this computer controls is connected to graphics parallerport and I/O-cards serial port. Now that ancient CRT connected to this machine gave up. I have noticed that old CRT:s, atleast working ones, are really hard to find, i´ve tried but with no success.
My actual question is...is it possible to put another, let's say 15pin VGA-graphics card, 8- or 16-bit, on empty ISA-slot, connect more modern CRT to it and still use that old card as parallerport. I've noticed that it's easier to find working old graphics card than CRT. There's not any manuals left for that I/O-card so it would be too hard to get it work right such short notice, i'm not that good with bunch of jumpers 😀