Re: Apple model history?

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

On eBay, some time ago (like probably more than a year) I saw someone
selling a whole bunch of Lisa cards on auction, including ones I hadn't
seen before, like a Corvus network/HD card for the Lisa. He also had a
card he called the 'Apple Lisa Color Card' but he had no information on it
(other than some basic serial number type info) or even a picture, and
never answered any emails...but I'm just wondering, I know it's OT since
it's a Lisa, but _was_ there a card for the lisa that let you connect a
color monitor? I remember that you could print in color to some of the
printers using special commands though...
can't remember the seller's name for sure but I think it might have been
something like "computer Jones" or something...ah well.

> doug <dkalley@pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
> > Paul Guertin wrote:
> > > There is no code either in the 128 ROM or in the original System
> > > that relates to color.
> > 
> >   ForeColor &  BackColor handle the following predefined colors: black,
> > white, red, megenta, blue, cyan, green, and yellow.
> >  ColorBit handles up to 32 bit pixel color data.
> > Thats for v105 (128/512k Mac), v112 (MacXL) ROMs, Macintosh System Software
> > (1984), and v1.1 Lisa Pascal. The routines output color to any color output
> > device (monitor,printer,etc.)
> 
> Thanks for the correction. I thought the Mac was color-blind until
> Color Quickdraw, but evidently I was wrong.
> 
> Paul Guertin
> pg@sff.net