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Ancient black and white technology superseding the [MDA] system. The Hercules display system was one of the earliest methods for attaining dual display support on your computer before the advent of dual [VGA] cards. Some software applications (such as the Borland TurboPascal IDE) allowed for dual display support, displaying the code on one screen and the execution on a second colour screen. Supported resolution * 80x25, text * 720x350, graphics These display adapters occasionally came with other interfaces built onto the card such as a sarallel or serial port. To quote the [PCGuide | http://www.pcguide.com/ref/video/std.htm]%%% "One weakness of the original MDA display was that it did not support graphics of any kind. A company named Hercules created in the early 80s an MDA-compatible video card that supported monochrome graphics in addition to the standard text modes.%%% The Hercules card was actually a very widely-accepted standard in the mid-80s; eventually Hercules clones even appeared on the market. Support for the card was included in popular software packages such as Lotus 1-2-3 to allow the display of graphs and charts on the computer screen. It has of course been replaced by later, color, graphics adapters." ---- GerwinVanDeSteeg might still have one somewhere, along with a working screen. Superseded by [CGA]
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