21 Apr
2015
21 Apr
'15
4:49 p.m.
On 04/21/2015 03:17 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
FWIW as I remember in Poland there were still new
deployments of HGC
clone installations in early 1990s, like 1992 or so, in education. That
stuff was presumably much cheaper, being phased out by VGA. The boards I
remember from that period were were highly integrated and much smaller
though, like about the length of an 8-bit ISA slot which is what they
took. A printer port was included of course.
POS use was quite common well into the 90s. Monochrome monitors were
significantly less expensive, power-hungry, and finicky. In addition,
it afforded near-VGA resolution if graphics was necessary.
A related episode was the deployment of monochrome VGA monitors.
Significantly less expense than the color ones.
--Chuck