Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Fri, 17 Apr 1998 20:28:01 -0600, Jeff Lemke
<lemke@terra.cira.colostate.edu> wrote:

>Forrest wrote:
>> 
>>   For the record, Number Nine was producing 1024x1024 graphics boards for
>> the Apple II back around 1980-82.
>
>Huh!  Very interesting!  I wonder what monitor you'd have to use back in
>1980 to display that kind of resolution, and how much it would have
>costed, and what the screen refresh rate for the resolution would have
>been like coming from an Apple II+.

Probably a Hercules compatible monochrome monitor.  There were other
video cards available for the IIs but they didn't really catch on.
There were cards that provided sprites and others that provided more
colours including coloured text characters.

Then there was the speech recognition card that was published in Steve
Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar in Byte magazine in the early to mid '80s.
(1983 comes to my mind for some reason but I no longer have the issues
with this project anymore so I can't check)  It could recognize up to
64 spoken words/phrases and would send text to the currently running
program.  ie. Saying "catalogue" would send the text "CATALOG"
followed by a carriage return.

Pretty cool technology for its time.

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