If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. One of the biggest changes to computers — especially ...

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 ...

Some laptops automatically switch to VGA output when the computer detects a VGA device connected to the VGA port. Locate the 15-pin VGA port on the back or side of your laptop. Align your monitor's ...

If your Arduino project requires a VGA connection you may be interested in a new Arduino VGA Shield that has been created by serial Kickstarter entrepreneur Masih Vahida. The third generation of ...

Unlike desktop computers that have easily upgraded video graphics capabilities, laptops have historically been incapable of allowing such an upgrade. Ideally, laptop design would allow the graphics ...