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Originally Posted by BarracudaUAK
My first computer (1977) was a Tandy 1000RL, no hard drive, 1, 3.5inch Double Density Floppy drive (720KB disk, not the 1.44MB disk.),
16 color Tandy Graphics Adapter (TGA), which, for most games "Simulated CGA".
That's 4 colors, count 'em, 1. 2. 3. 4. @ 320x200 resolution on a 14 inch CRT. DOS 3.3, and Deskmate GUI on the ROM... (which by the way, both still work,
even the Keyboard and Mouse. When I had a mouse or keyboard stop working on a new PC,
and either no $ or means of getting to the store to purchase a new one, I would pull out the Tandy's and be able to continue using my newer PC,
until I could get a new one.)
Barracuda
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Eh, what's that you say there Sonny?
My first computer (1977) was a Tandy TRS-80, no Floppy drive (just a cassette tape for program storage)
That's 2 colors count em, 1 and 2, Black and White... Block Graphics and all CAP text screen (real bummer on the eyes)
Peripherals what's that? (unless you count the keyboard and cassette player)
No mouse or any sort of pointing device on the market at that time.
Had to modify the sucker with an after market upper/lower case graphics chip and then when I went to put it in, had to modify the motherboard too, because the morons had tied the 7th and 8th bits together going into the graphics processor. Some brilliant designer decided that lower case was never going to be popular, so they didn't need more than 128 alphabetic characters. LOL
Fortunately, back then that computer (The TRS-80) came with ALL the wiring schematics and the motherboard circuit tracing was easy enough to alter.
Really GRAY (haired) Lensman