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

[Chris Cox <ccox_nopenotthis@airmail.net>]

Bible John wrote:
> In article <11c374o6krnjdd3@news.supernews.com>,
>  "T. Sean Weintz" <strap@hanh-ct.org> wrote:
>
> > BALONEY!
> >
> > Color PC's came out in the EARLY 80's - what the heck do you think a CGA 
> > card was for? EGA and then VGA both also came out before 1989.
> >
> > ALSO- NEC DID have an 8 color lcd laptop out in 1989 as if recall 
> > correctly..
> >
> > So NO, you are NOT correct.
>
> The schools did not have color PC's then, and no home I visited had them 
> in 1989.  But the schools had plenty of Apple IIgs with color monitors.  

My High School had Apple II's with COLOR monitors.

> Its just that Apple was again ahead of the game and I was unaware of the 
> entire PC world outside of the K-5 school which I was attending, which 
> had PC's, but not one was in color.  

Shame.  We had a computer program though.  My first computer science
class was in high school.. the year, 1982 (and we weren't bleeding
edge.. though perhaps ahead of other schools).

I learned BASIC and Fortran in that class.  I purchased my Osborne I
that same year (which I'll admit, wasn't color), but was a portable.
Now.. your statement about a color lcd laptop (that wasn't sewing
machine  size with a CRT) not existing in the eighties... well that part
is more believable.