8 Oct
2011
8 Oct
'11
7:53 p.m.
On 08/10/11 9:36 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Very expensively upgraded. It was 1988, and even 8 bit cards weren't
cheap, and nor were Trinitrons.
Hm, look, here's a Sun price list from Dec 1988 (Bitsavers).
Upgrades:
High res (megapixel-like) mono for Sun-3 $4,000
cg3* 8-bit colour and 19" monitor $12,000 (!!)
cg5 "accelerated" 8b colour, 19" monitor $15,000 (!!)
cg3 8-bit grey and 19" monitor $10,900
Compare NeXT cube, complete system $6,500 c/w megapixel 2-bit greyscale.?
So yes, for the price of 2 1/2 NeXT systems, you could add 8 bit colour
to your one Sun.
--Toby
* Also see: http://www.sunhelp.org/faq/FrameBufferHistory.html
? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_Computer
> Lisa/NeXT
were progreesive attempts towards Jobs' dream. (which was WAY
> different from Woniak's dream!)
> CLOSED. Avoidance of industry standard removable storage.
> HI-res B&W (was Jobs, by any chance, color blind?)
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011,
Toby Thain wrote:
This more reflects the hardware cost realities of
the time, both in
cards and monitors. For a time, post-Jobs Apple sold 12"& 13"
The original NeXT would not permit color, no matter how much you wanted to
pay.
THERE WAS NO WAY TO CONNECT COLOR.
Meanwhile, those no good competing machines could be trivially upgraded.