[Info-vax] Fwd: Apple says company co-founder Steve Jobs has died

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In article <j72ntp$krq$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
>JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
>(snip) 
>>> "The $1,565 price bought a system unit, a keyboard and a color/
>>> graphics capability. Options included a display, a printer, two
>>> diskette drives, extra memory, communications, game adapter and
>>> application packages ??? including one for text processing."
>
>> Did the original IBM PC really have colour graphics ? I seem to recall
>> their green phosphor monitors.
>
>There were two choices with the original.  One was the monochrome
>graphics card, with its own matching monitor.  The other was the CGA,
>which ran at NTSC scan frequencies, and output either RGB or
>composite video.  Much lower resolution than the MGA, but color.
>You could connect it to a TV set video input, and I did that once.
>(For one, I used it to do the convergence adjustment on my TV.)
>
>Higher resolution color came later, with the EGA, PGA, and later VGA.

It was still an ugly Behemoth beside the Rainbow.  

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