23 May
2007
23 May
'07
12:01 a.m.
--- Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Waht does a Sirius (Vixtor 9000) or an HP150 have to
offer that a 'bow
doesn't?
The 'bow graphics card had a limited vertical
resolution (200 pixels?)
but apart from that it was pretty good. It had a
7220 graphics chip on
it, it had a colour lookup table. Darn it, it had
colour (the HP150 and
the Sirius seem to be monochrome only).
Ok, so in the color graphics category, I assume we
can agree the Rainbow was the least spectacular of the
pseudo compatibles. Pretty much standard amongst that
group was 400 lines of resolution. My whole point was
the graphics should be noticeably better to buy
something that didn't have oodles of software packages
available (this was the big seller for the IBM/100%ers
back in that day. Typically those didn't have killer
graphics or anything, but there was no want of
anything in the software department.)
I don't know a whole lot about the HP 150's (had
several in my grasp last year...). The Victor/Sirius
had nice floppy storage though. As soon as I figure
out why my 1 *working* V9000 billows smoke after
running for a couple of minutes, I might be able to
tell you more about it LOL.
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