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To: Joseph H. Leiti who wrote (8366)	5/1/1998 11:54:00 PM
From: Len	Respond to of 16892

Joe Permit me to jump in. There are a few cards like you mention, made by Appian, Colorgrphx, and one other, though I don't remember the name. Everything I hear about the Appian cards has been positive. For more information, check out elitetrader.com. Not only is there a thread there where the product has been discussed, Baron Robertson ( the administrator of the site) recently added the ability to buy the Appian cards directly from his site. Also, check out this site here at SI. It's been discussed extensively, if you don't mind all the technical jargon. Subject 18946 Hope this helps. Len

To: Joseph H. Leiti who wrote (8366)	5/2/1998 12:20:00 AM
From: gbh	Respond to of 16892

Joe, wait until June 25 (hopefully), and just go out and upgrade to Win98 and buy yourself a second graphics board (your favorite). Win98 has support for multiple monitors (4, I think) built in.

To: Joseph H. Leiti who wrote (8366)	5/2/1998 12:45:00 AM
From: jawd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16892

Len already mentioned Appian, a very nice card, nice software etc, except one thing - did not work well for me. I just took mine out tonight and put back the Maxtron that came with the Dell. Specifics: In MBTrader software I was losing the chart "zoom" cursor, hence I couldn't properly use the chart zoom feature - tried everything including switching off all graphics acceleration - still couldn't fix it. Never spoke to Appian - I thought at first it was MBT problem. Then I changed back to my old graphics card and it worked perfectly. Something else: Brand new 21" ViewSonic mysteriously died after only two weeks. This might be nothing to do with the Appian at all, but it wouldn't surprise me. And I used only about 75 hz refresh rate, so it wasn't me driving the monitor too hard or anything like that. Mind you, I left it on continuously, (anybody think that would blow the monitor?) The card I had (I'm sending it back to Appian inside the 30 days for a refund) was the Jeronimo 2. In fact, that isn't what I ordered, I actually ordered the Jeronimo 3 with 2 ports expandable to 3 or 4. So I was going to send it back anyway for the J3. Maybe the J3 is better. I don't know. Also, possibly this problem might not affect the MBLite software. Sorry to put a damper on Appian - but that's life! These boards are not cheap - I think my one with the extra memory came to about $750, so really I expect it to work for that kinda money.