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On Sat, 26 Apr 1997 18:52:20 -0700, Randy Whittle wrote: >At 07:12 PM 4/26/97 -0500, Aaron W. Brown wrote: >> I have often wished that my crisp Thinkpad TFT display could be used as >the VGA display for a second (desktop) system. > > The other day I was at a CompUSA and saw a desktop machine made by Compaq >that was pretty nifty. It had a flat panel TFT display, I think went to >1024x768, and it was called "Double-bright" or somesuch. Believe me, it >WAS! It looked *really* good--clear, sharp--incredible. They had a little >graph comparing the brightness level to other things (like a laptop TFT) >and it claimed to be twice as bright. I don't know for certain that it >was, but it sure looked like it. > > Actually, you can get a "kit" to attach a TFT to your desktop using a 8 bit (mono) or 16-bit (mono, stn, dstn, tft) on your desktop using a compatible LCD and the controller card. In fact, as I speak I have one of these kits attached to a test system that I used to perfom tests on an old Seagate 20meg drive. I was supposed to get the TFT kit, but there were some discrepensies in the deal I worked out with the owner of this company that I wasn't aware of. I actually traded in what I was told was a proprietary TFT LCD (which I sort of wish I had kept, though I needed a VGA monitor, and at that time, a CRT was more expensive than a trade-in). So apparently, this company decided to send me a mono lcd, which is "okay", but I wasn't very satisfied. If you are interested though, they are called Earth Computer Technologies, based in Mission Viejo, California. Their website is somewhere on Netcom, though I forgot where. Regards, Paul Khoury >------- >Randy Whittle rwhittle@usa.net >Marshall Graduate School of Business at USC http://www-scf.usc.edu/~whittle > >*Every* man dies. Not every man really LIVES! > - William Wallace, 15th Century Scottish Freedom Fighter > Regards, Paul Khoury pkhoury@earthlink.net