You Can Drive Five Monitors with a Commodore 128
Having an extra monitor can really help to boost productivity. It gives you room to keep reference material, documentation, chat windows, or monitoring tools visible without constantly switching between applications. Some people even have three screens connected to their computer to give themselves enough real estate for all of their applications. But this luxury wasn’t available in the early days of personal computing. In those days, even having one extra monitor would have been unthinkable for most.
Not only was the equipment expensive, but more importantly, the earliest personal computers could rarely drive multiple monitors. The Commodore 128 (C128) was an exception in this regard. It had two video chips to support its different video modes, so if you knew what you were doing, you could drive two monitors simultaneously. Now, more than four decades after the machine’s first release, The 8-Bit Guy has demonstrated a trick that allows the...
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