4 Jun
2007
4 Jun
'07
3:11 p.m.
In article <4664516F.2010600 at pacbell.net>,
Jim Battle <frustum at pacbell.net> writes:
The horizon didn't have graphics (it just had
serial ports), but the
advantage has dot addressable graphics (monochrome, 640x200 or 640x240 I
think).
Interesting! I see our old friend "computermkt" has one on ebay for
only $800 plus another $55 for shipping. How common are the Advantage
machines? It would be another nice milestone in personal computer
graphics (old-computers.com says the Advantage came out in 1982, which
makes it pretty significant historically).
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