Graphic options for DS10L

Being the proud winner of a brand new used DS10L, I must now plan how
to integrate this into my hobbyist data centre.

One option is to replace my 3100-30. This means that I would need a
graphics card for the DS10L.

Does anyone have comments on the cards available on Island ?

http://www.islandco.com/graphics.html

is the Penmedia at $100 really the same as a Elsa Gloria card at $299 ?

I take at all those cards are 24 bit colour capable at 1280*1024 ?

What difference does the on board memory make ? Clearly, a card that has
8mb cannot fully contain a 24 bit 1280*1024 screen, so it much use real
RAM in the machine, right ? What is that 8mb used for ?


Also, I'll be buying a SCSI card (needed to plug in a CD drive initially
to load VMS onto the baby). Island suggested the KZPBA-CA. Is this a
full featured SCSI card I will be able to boot from, or is that one of
those retrictive Digital products with very limited functionlity ?

Anytone know where I can get the specs/instruction on such cards ?
(notably what sort of connector I will need, or if I can rig up standard
50 pin ribbon cable from the inside).
.

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