The TI 34010

Actually I was thinking of text effects like bold, italics, underline, etc. Also I had character-cell displays in mind, as well as bit-addressable ones. I'll admit that what I really had in the back of my mind, as a somewhat-good but mostly-bad example, was PC graphics. I find their history oddly haunting. There have been a lot of fancy features over the years. I'm most interested in the EGA/VGA/custom extensions to text mode (more colors, big character sets, large numbers of characters, etc.) but the graphics extensions (3D cards, 8514/A, XGA, PGA, etc.) are nice too. Unfortunately, they're built on top of such a lousy base! Bad BIOS code, deficient hardware, a series of OSs that have no interface to _extra_ features (except maybe OS/2 and Linux), bad drivers... Admittedly, I always wanted to play with a Hercules card. -- Derek