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From: eric@fudge.uchicago.edu (Eric Fischer)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: What's a "Toby" video card?
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Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> wrote:

> Thanks to everyone for telling me that a "Toby" card is the original Mac II
> color video card.  I even got a very generous offer of one from someone
> who has one and isn't using it.  Now if I can just find out if it will,
> indeed, run X11 in color on it, and if it can drive a larger monitor at a
> higher res.

It can do *slightly* higher than 640x480 -- the old MaxAppleZoom
extension pushed it to its maximum resolution.  But it only supports
the one sync rate intended for the 13" color or 12" mono display.

Eric