Thirty-five years ago, IBM introduced a brand-new graphical standard for its IBM Personal Computer line: Enhanced Graphics Adapter, or EGA for short. Coming on the heels of 1981's CGA (Color Graphics ...

When IBM introduced the Intel 8080-based Personal Computer (PC) in 1981, it was equipped with an add-in board (AIB) called the Color Graphics Adaptor (CGA) (Fig. 1). The CGA AIB had 16 Kbytes of video ...

Internal video cards have been around as long as the PC—IBM's original 1981 model had no graphics at all, until you added the IBM Color Graphics Adapter (CGA) and reveled in its 320 by 200 resolution ...