10 Feb
2011
10 Feb
'11
5:23 p.m.
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, ben wrote:
Did anybody use 96 column terminals?
Later - in the 1980s (in the mid to late 1980s, I had 160 x 50!)
In the 1970s, anything more than 80 columns cost MONEY!
Even getting 80 columns was pushing some limits. That's why early
microcomputers, from the beginning, through Apple, Commodore and TRS80 ran
less than 80 columns. Of course it didn't help that the bulk of the
public used old TV sets. The RCA TV set that Radio Shak modified for the
TRS80 model I was not very high resolution.
'round about 1980, better video started to become available.
TRS80 model 4 had 80 x 24, and 80 column cards became available
for Apple ][.
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