On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Toby Thain wrote:
So yes, for the price of 2 1/2 NeXT systems, you could
add 8 bit colour
to your one Sun.
Some people wanted color so badly, that they would give up resolution to
get it!
Personally, I never got the appeal of 256 color accounting.
I was much happier with Amdek 1280/Wyse 700 (1280 x 700 B&W).
But, every college administrator "had to have" VGA, while the CIS
department used CGA, so that we could use cheap B&W composite monitors.
(upgraded to Hercules in ~1995). They upgraded from 286 to 386 and then
to 486, while we were still stuck with 8088, but wouldn't give them to us,
"because we can get $150 trade-in!") When we finally got Pentiums, it was
at more than twice the going rate, because somebody cut a special deal.