so can these LCD's  be hooked directly to a computer with no modification?


>    I just got a new All electronics catalog today and they have 640x480
LCD
>    panels with on board drivers. 6"x4.5" veiwing area for 25 bux
>
>On board drivers are not the same as an on-board controller.  (your
standard
>hitachi ascii display has both, right?)  A VGA LCD with drivers needs
>something analagous to an expensive VGA card to give it dot-addressable or
>text capabilities.  (You could probably do SOMETHING with just a PIC, but
>it'd be as hard as driving video directly, I think.)
>
>BillW