Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[regnirps@aol.com (Regnirps)]

Forrest <squitaur@net-gate.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Jeff Lemke wrote:
>
>> > Now heres the irony: they finally come out with an
>> > Apple IIGS and it has better graphics and sound than the
>> > IBM clones of the day (which were doing EGA and not yet
>> > SoundBlaster).  Its speed was not spectacular, but comparable
>> > to an IBM AT revision 2 (8Mhz 286).  
>> 
>> Then it was about par for its day in speed (for a short while, until the
>> 386's arrived on its heels), but there were already PC's out there with
>> far better graphics capabilities via third party graphics boards, like
>> the early TARGA boards, for instance.
>
>  For the record, Number Nine was producing 1024x1024 graphics boards for 
>the Apple II back around 1980-82.

And Redshift Limited (Me) was producing a card that gave your Apple II 8 bits
per pixel mono and video frame grabbing plus a color option with 5 bits per
color, all automatically overlayed on regular video output. ImageWorks,
ImageMaster, and ImageWorks II. Under $300.

Charlie Springer