HDMI and DisplayPort would require far too much of this tiny, 80s-era computer, and it’s getting hard to buy a composite monitor. This meant it was time to build a VGA video card from some ...

The DE-9 connector (above) used for CGA, MDA, and Hercules cards, and DE-15 connector (below) used for VGA In 1987, IBM defined a new graphics standard to push the graphics on their PC to levels ...

The VGA card in the computer is cabled to the pass-through circuit on the high-res adapter. When high-resolution is not used, the card's driver causes the VGA signals to pass through to the monitor.

A plug-in card in a desktop computer that performs graphics processing ... graphics controller, VGA adapter and VGA card have all been terms for the plug-in board that creates the screen images.