Early CRT controller.
Chipset itself is from year 1977. Used in various microcomputers and also cloned by many companies. P in the name of chip mean Plastic package, L mean Ceramic package.
IBM CGA (16kB) is from year 1981. Hercules Color Card (64kB) from 1984.
Palcal's card:
(734) IBM CGA
(734) IBM CGA
Pirx's card:
Hercules Color Card
Hercules Color Card
Hercules Color Card HQ
Hercules Color Card HQ
Hercules Color Card box
Hercules Color Card boxAdditional Info
- Made by: Motorola
- Codename: MC6845
- Bus: ISA 8bit
- Memory Size: 16kB, 64kB
- Memory Type: DRAM
- Year: 1981
- Card Type: CGA, Hercules
- Owned by: Palcal, Pirx
- Outputs: 9 pin D‐sub, RCA/CINCH, LPT
- Power consumption (W): 0.6
- Core Clock (MHz): 2.5
- Sold by: IBMHercules
- Wikipedia: Wiki
- Review: PC Mag (Hercules)
- Info: Wikipedia - CGA info
- Info: Advertisment (Hercules)
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