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

[Randy Howard <randyhoward@FOOverizonBAR.net>]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:21:40 -0500, Bible John wrote
(in article 
<john.doggett-6EA0CF.13214028062005@news.charter.net>):

> 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.  

Bizarre, I had a computer (heathkit H-151) that had color 
support (CGA) that I built in 1982, hooked up to a Princeton 
monitor, i.e. a full 7 years prior.

> 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.  

Color monitors were expensive, and probably not purchased by 
your school, but they did exist.