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From: bill_gates@microsoft.com (Simon Williams)
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 06:16:19 GMT
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Roger Johnstone <rojaws@orcon.net.nz> wrote:

> Several RGB cards for the Apple II could do that. They simply replaced
> the foreground and background colours when the Apple was in text mode.
> There was normally no software control but you could use switches on the
> card to select the colours e.g. cyan text on a dark blue background was
> a favourite.

Now that brings a question to mind... is it possible to change the text
colour by changing a ROM or something? I suppose it would only work with
non-Apple monitors, though...

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