![]() ![]() New and are compatible with these systems. Resultantly, a few people have stepped up and designed native 8 bit ISA cards that can be built or purchased Systems with 8 bit expansion busses have this problem. My Tandy isn't the only system with this problem, all pre-vga ThereĪre a select few 16 bit cards that are compatible with an 8 bit bus.īut they're few and far between, hard to find, and prohibitively expensive on the used market. To go, but The Tandy 1000 system only has an 8 bit ISA bus, and the vast majority (if not all) VGA cards were designed for an 16 bit bus. You'd think you could just install a new VGA card and be good Large and expensive to ship monitors will work correctly with the system out of the box. There's nothing particularly wrong with it and it's a great retro system, but sadly the built in video output is Tandy CGA, and only a select few very I've had a complete Tandy 1000 TL/2 computer and Tandy CM-11 color CGA monitor that I found in a thrift store for $15 for about 10 or so years now. Why Would Anybody Want An 8-bit ISA VGA Card? ![]()
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