21 Nov
1999
21 Nov
'99
6:13 p.m.
"Jay West" <west(a)tseinc.com> wrote:
Additional question - when I had my apple ][+ at
around age 15 or so, I
always used a monochrome monitor. I never had color before I got rid of it
around age 20. I was wondering - does a stock apple ][+ support a color
monitor or is it monochrome via the RCA jack unless you get an add-in card?
The Apple ][ supported color from day 1, although the earliest revisions
of the logic board (before the ][+) only supported four colors [*] in
high-resolution mode, vs. six colors [*] on later boards. The color
support, combined with the open architecture and not-too-ridiculous
price are largely credited with Apple's amazing success in the early
days.
Eric
[*] In this context, black and white are considered to be colors.