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From: "Curt @ Atari Museum" <curt at atarimuseum.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: Atari/Commodore hybrid,was Re: General religious wars (was
Re:Editor religious wars)
I remember I was working for Entre Computer Centers as
an on-site full time
computer support engineer at Colgate Palmolive on Park Ave, across from the
Waldof Astoria hotel.... we got in I think 3 of the first Mac II's in New
York.... there was only 1 huge problem with them, the only monitors that
could be used on them were these new versions of Sony monitors, and they
weren't fully available yet and it took like 7-10 days before they arrived.
The 3 exec's that were getting the Mac II's... it was hilarious, they
wanted the computer sooooooooooooooo bad, that even without monitors, they
wanted them installed in their offices and those machines sat there for
like over a week - monitorless until the Sony displays arrived... I
remember powering up the first Mac II and to see the Mac OS running in full
GORGEOUS color was really breath-taking, ah the good old days when I used
to actually get excited over technology...
Curt
I guess they were too cheap to get 2 video cards and dual monitors then?
Having multiple color monitors (easily setup if you had the cash) was one of
the coolest things you could do on a Mac II/IIx/IIfx when it was unheard of
on the PC Win3.1 machines.