Re: X-files goof.Color laptops in 1989 dream on!

From: Charles Dye (raster_at_highfiber.com)
Date: 06/29/05 

Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:28:15 -0600

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 02:29:32 +1000, "Lance Lyon"
<llyon@landover.NOSPAM.no-ip.com> wrote:

>"Bible John" <john.doggett@x-files.gov> wrote in message
>news:john.doggett-AFAB24.07535528062005@news.charter.net...

>>As a matter of
>> fact, even color monitors were hard to come bye, and as best I can
>> recollect the only color computers in 1989 was the Apple IIgs and
>> Macintosh. I heavily used both PC's and Apple's in those days, and
>> never used or heard of a color PC, but used plenty of colors apples.

>Are you serious ? As far as PC's were concerned, in 1989 there was CGA, EGA,
>VGA & XGA - all colour, I doubt you 'heavily used' PC's if you don't know
>that.
>
>As far as other colour machines were concerned, there;s all the 8 bitters &
>16 bitters that had been around for quite a few years too.....

I'm using a Commodore 1702 monitor with my DVD player; the nameplate
on the back says "February 1984". It works beautifully for this
purpose, with excellent contrast between light and dark display regions.
A few years after I got the DVD player, I realized that Commodore's
funky split luma/chroma cable system was in fact the exact same thing as
the modern S-video cable, only with different connectors. One trip to
Radio Shack and a few minutes with the soldering iron, and I had a
working S-video-to-CBM cable. All in all, a very fine monitor, though
it is a heavy beast. 

-- 
Charles Dye     raster@highfiber.com

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