earliest graphics display system in your collection?

On 4/20/2006 at 3:33 PM Fred Cisin wrote: Not exactly, close though. I can recall seeing the IBM announcement in Datamation right about at the same time that Intel was rolling out the 8080. I got to see a 5100 up close at NCC, I think in 1976 or so. IBM had all the external doodads hooked to one and was showing it off and getting about the same reception as day-old pancakes from the crowd. I could not believe the little bitty screen on it and wondered how any human was expected to use such a thing. Of course, I wondered the same thing when I saw one of the first Osborne 1's spread out on a tabletop at Sorcim (no case yet). "You can't be serious," said I. "Who the heck is going to want to peer at that little screen?" Richard Frank assured me that he didn't see it as a problem. With my bad eyesight, I just didn't see it at all. Cheers, Chuck