Scali
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Ah hey there Scali, fancy meeting you here
Oh hi Vile btw!
Missed that post earlier.
From my experience, most EGA cards out there were clones, and nearly all clones had 256K on board (our family XT had one of those at some point).
Well, interesting.
I figured that EGA was very rare as a stock-option in clone PCs (it seems that quite a few of them used an ATi Graphics Solution/Small Wonder), so most EGA cards out there would have been original IBM cards in original IBM PCs.
There was only a small window of opportunity for upgrading a CGA/MDA/Hercules machine to EGA, because VGA arrived on the scene only shortly after third-party EGA cards did, so in my experience, EGA aftermarket was never big.
Then again, as I say, it could be a geographical thing. In my part of the world, PC gaming didn't take off until the early 90s anyway (386SX-16 with Trident VGA seemed to be an early 'standard', around the time that Wolfenstein 3D became popular). So there weren't many people who had a PC at home, let alone that they were interested in upgrading the graphics capabilities.