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12:56 p.m.
What is it? I didn't know the Northstar's had graphics capabilities.
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1:52 p.m.
Richard wrote:
What is it? I didn't know the Northstar's had
graphics capabilities.
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The horizon didn't have graphics (it just had serial ports), but the
advantage has dot addressable graphics (monochrome, 640x200 or 640x240 I
think).
3:11 p.m.
In article <4664516F.2010600 at pacbell.net>,
Jim Battle <frustum at pacbell.net> writes:
The horizon didn't have graphics (it just had
serial ports), but the
advantage has dot addressable graphics (monochrome, 640x200 or 640x240 I
think).
Interesting! I see our old friend "computermkt" has one on ebay for
only $800 plus another $55 for shipping. How common are the Advantage
machines? It would be another nice milestone in personal computer
graphics (old-computers.com says the Advantage came out in 1982, which
makes it pretty significant historically).
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4:38 p.m.
What is it? I didn't know the Northstar's had
graphics capabilities.
I'm not sure whats with "Graphics CP/M" as far as I can tell CP/M
itself is text mode on the Advantage, although some applicatons were
ported/created to/for the Advantage which used it's graphical abilities.
NorthStar did provide a graphics version of BASIC under N* DOS for
the Advantage.
> The horizon didn't have graphics (it just had
serial ports), but the
> advantage has dot addressable graphics (monochrome, 640x200 or 640x240 I
> think).
And quite impressive considering the time period - If you have an Advantage
and have not done so yet, run the diagnostics/demonstration disk and see
the graphics demos (I have it on my site). One of these days I'm going to
take some screen shots to post on the site.
I wanted one "so bad" when they were current and I had no budget.
Interesting! I see our old friend
"computermkt" has one on ebay for
only $800 plus another $55 for shipping. How common are the Advantage
machines? It would be another nice milestone in personal computer
graphics (old-computers.com says the Advantage came out in 1982, which
makes it pretty significant historically).
Although it was cutting edge at the time, it seemed to go largly unnoticed,
and most people have never heard of it. There not that common, but they do
turn up from time to time. $800 seems way-overpriced to me.
Dave
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4:08 p.m.
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, dave06a at dunfield.com wrote:
And quite impressive considering the time period - If
you have an Advantage
and have not done so yet, run the diagnostics/demonstration disk and see
the graphics demos (I have it on my site). One of these days I'm going to
take some screen shots to post on the site.
Tandy had a graphics option board for the TRS-80 Model 4 which would do
640x240 (mono), part #26-1126. I have one installed in a Model 4P -
there's a picture of a graphics demo on this page:
http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/Tandy/Model4p.html
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
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