Re: Apple II with ProTERM 3.1 OS X/Unix Serial Terminal

[Greg Buchner <null@none.invalid>]

In article <_3t0l.34916$yB4.32788@newsfe07.iad>,
 "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> wrote:

> 
> The Mac itself like other old computers may not be considered deprecated by 
> those of us who marvelled at the stupidity of Apple in not making wonderful 
> computers with 68000 processors compatible with the inexpensive VGA monitors 
> of the day as we watched our Berkely After-Dark Screensavers in Black and 
> White and tried to explain to our designers why a console application might 
> be useful. 

What are you talking about? VGA was first released in 1987, same year as 
the Macintosh II which could use a monitor that was, except for the 
connector, VGA compatible.

And color monitors back then weren't inexpensive as I recall. 

Maybe you are thinking of CGA/EGA, neither of which really got to the 
resolution that Apple wanted for the first Macs.  Those B&W displays had 
72 DPI, both horizontal and vertical. It was perfect for a WYSIWYG 
display at the time.

Greg B.

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