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["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Friday 2005-11-11 at 20:37 -0500, James Knott wrote:

> >> The original IBM PC was monochrome only with CGA following later.
> > 
> > 
> > 	I don't think that's right. I remember the RF connector-)
> 
> IIRC, when the IBM PC was first released, only the monochrome card was
> available.  The CGA card came out very shortly after.

I don't know when they were comercialized, but I just dug out the 
"Technical Reference" book of the IBM PC, first edition (Revised January 
1983) and it documents both interfaces:

  IBM Monochrome Display and Parallel Printer Adapter     2-47
  ...
  Color/Graphics Adapter                                  2-55

They were different cards.

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Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson
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