Re: apple ii lineage?

["Mad Scientist Jr" <usenet_daughter@yahoo.com>]

Thanks for the reply... I have another question - what colors did the
IIe support? I visited apple2history.org and was suprised to learn the
II only could display green, violet, black & white?? Even the Atari
2600 had better color support than that. And why would Woz choose such
an off color as violet?! I would think they might pick some basics, you
know like red, blue, yellow. I had heard about 4-color apple games, and
seen some in emulators (yecch), but all the IIs i had had exposure to
growing up had green screens, so i never knew. Having had a C=64 myself
(16 colors) I guess I was a bit spoiled. When was the Apple II finally
(if ever) capable of displaying red?? (PS Im not getting down on Apple,
it's just suprising)

from http://apple2history.org/history/ah06.html
>The Revision 0 board had only four colors (green, violet, black, white), but Wozniak had learned that by making a simple alteration he could get two more colors (blue and orange) and two more varieties of black and white. The Revision 1 and later boards were capable of displaying all eight colors.