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- Company name: James Engineering
- Marketing contact: Beverly James
- Company address: 6329 Fairmount Avenue
- City, state, zip: El Cerrito, CA 94530
- Company phone: (510) 525-7350 fax: (510) 525-5740
- AppleLink: JAMES.ENGRG
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- MacVGA™ - connects PowerBooks to VGA monitors for under $25
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- EL CERRITO, CA --- 26.Oct.92 --- James Engineering is pleased to announce
- MacVGA for Apple® Computer, Inc.'s new Macintosh PowerBook 160 and 180
- computers. MacVGA for the PowerBook 160 and 180 is designed to increase
- “portable productivity” by providing low cost color VGA connectivity to
- hundreds of VGA monitors and VGA compatible presentation display products such
- as video overlay projection panels and CRT projectors.
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- PowerBook 160 and 180 - video output
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- A significant difference from the PowerBook 160 and 180 notebook predecessors
- is the addition of a video output port. Supporting all Apple monitors, the
- PowerBook 160 and 180 on-board video circuitry can also support VGA monitors
- with the addition of a specially designed low cost adapter, the MacVGA.
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- With an estimated installed base of tens of millions of VGA monitors used with
- Intel based personal computer systems; new PowerBook users can now have access
- to larger display devices in more locations without the need to carry a
- separate monitors.
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- MacVGA - the video adapter for VGA monitors
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- “With the demand for desktop presentations and users needing a desktop display
- solution, the new PowerBooks are ideal.” said Beverly James, co-founder and
- President of James Engineering. “With our MacVGA video adapter, we offer an
- easy low cost way for bringing color to the 160 and 180 user."
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- With its compact size (1.8” x 1.7” x .6”) and weighing less than an ounce, the
- MacVGA is designed for mobile as well as desktop usage. The MacVGA plugs
- directly into the auxiliary video cable of the 160 and 180 to accept a standard
- VGA monitor cable. The MacVGA has a suggested retail price of $25.00.
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- The MacVGA joins the family of VGA monitor adapters from James Engineering for
- the Macintosh LC, LC II, Macintosh Performa™ 200, PowerBook Duo™ (DeskBar and
- docking station), and Macintosh Quadra™ computers.
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- For ordering information, contact James Engineering at (510) 525-7350.
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- This information is provided by the product's developer or distributor and
- constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation by Apple Computer,
- Inc.. Apple assumes no responsibility with regard to selection, performance or
- use of this product. All understandings, agreements and warranties, if any,
- take place directly between the developer and the prospective user.
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