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Serial to crt or vga adapter

I want to get a small pc104 powerpc board but most have no video or if they do it is in the form of a lcd output. So how am i suppose to output the video to a crt screen. I have a special screen that is to my specs and i am forced to use it. It is a vga 640X480 60hz 16color screen and i just want to output some text from a small embedded board. So any suggestions like using a serial to vga adapter to output the text? So if you know of any adapters please email back. Chris White

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Why does it have to be PowerPC?

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larwe

Just add a VGA PC/104 card to the PC/104 stack.

Paul

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Paul Keinanen

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Mike Harrison

Sounds like an ideal fit for our Vga-232 module :)

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Supports scaled Text, and uses a simple string interface, outputs

640x480 16 colours.

-jg

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Jim Granville

Boy, this brings back memories. Especially when I visited the site and saw (e)ANSI.

I've worked for a couple of public display companies (airports, public transport etc) where this kind of gizmo was fairly common. Somewhere on this drive I have antique code (wot I writ) for a script language (wot I devised) for driving them...

Bah. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. ;)

Steve

PS: this led me on a bit of a hunt which yielded this, from the early days of GPS:

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The last page has a dodgy picture of me. You have been warned. (Hint: I'm the bald-yet-still-hairy primate on the left.)

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