Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[Jeff Lemke <lemke@terra.cira.colostate.edu>]

Forrest 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.


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+.

Jeff Lemke