22 Feb
1998
22 Feb
'98
9:31 a.m.
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 00:41:45 -0500
Reply-To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram(a)cnct.com
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Future Computing Trends
Max Eskin wrote:
Who says I want it for arcades? I don't play games much anyway.
Whatever happened to desktop publishing, CAD, photoediting?
What mostly annoys me is how little I can fit on an 80X25 text mode
screen compared to 1280X1024 resolution and small font.
I agree wholeheartedly with all you say with one exception. I have a
Pentium 75 overclocked to 100, 16MB ram. It runs Word 95 just fine,
and ran it fine when it had 8MB. Visual Basic and IE4 (I don't use
it regulary, Opera at www.operasoftware.com is much better: 1MB
download!)
work fine too. I can only imagine how Linux would run. But to put
this in a classical context, I agree that old computers are still
useful, but I so wish that they had better displays :)
I defy _anybody_ to say that a "better" display would improve any
Big Five Software arcade games as they ran on the 128x48 monochrome
graphics of the TRS-80 1/3. And I defy anybody to find a better
batch of arcade games, unless you really want to see the blood from
kicked-in faces, a fetish I outgrew 25 or so years ago.
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