It's capable of displaying at least two different shades of grey by manipulating the placement of pixels on the screen.
Yup. Unless you're doing some kind of filtering like some of the HP PA-RISC workstations offered, dithering is not the same thing as additional shades.Not to be pedantic, but if you can clearly see pixel dithering, it's not really a shade of grey...
The IIGs could have gone another generation with upgrades like more RAM, maybe a faster CPU, and built in HD. Would have sold well to the education market since it was cheaper then a limited compact Mac.
The 68000 equipped compact macs were pricey for what you got.
This also reminds me of the Sept 1988 price increases on Macs. The list price of floppy only Mac IIs (without monitor or video card) was raised from $3769 to $4869. In January 1989, Apple released the SE/30 at a base (floppy only) list price of $4369, but that only includes the built-in mono 512x342 display. In March 1989, Apple released the IIcx, but the list price of the floppy only one (without monitor or video card) was still $4669. It was not until October 1990 that they released the LC and IIsi.
RAM prices doubled between 1987 and 1988 and doubled again by 1990. That killed a lot of cheaper systems and slowed the adoption of fancier operating systems.
Dell was one of the vendors that did this I think.Wasn't there a PC system with SRAM for main memory because it was cheaper then DRAM at the time?
RAM prices doubled between 1987 and 1988 and doubled again by 1990. That killed a lot of cheaper systems and slowed the adoption of fancier operating systems.
You're like the guy with the 100% original classic car who looks down on anyone without the "correct" hose clamps under the hood. Most people get into vintage computing because it's fun and interesting. For some people, that's just playing DOS games on a Pentium II. Why would anyone care about "impressing" some elitist internet randos?
I find it fascinating how many people are interested in DOS machines right now, actually. Lots of young people too. One video that was posted of a PS/2 on youtube got hundreds of hits in a couple of days. And I've noticed on forums like reddit people react way more to 286/386 posts.
Personally I loved that time in computing.. upgrade your cpu and bam.. major change. Software revisions almost always brought major new features.
But I agree a little on hardware.. I have vintage 8086 to 486 stuff and rarely touch it. It's so easy to just fire up DOSbox.
Raises an interesting question though.. where is the cutoff for what can be considered vintage and worth collecting?
No, I don't think that's the right analogy. "Correct hose clamps" would be looking down on the person who ditched the factory-standard video card so it's no longer in stock configuration, for example. Rather, I think it's more like saying collecting (and driving) old Alfa Romeos is more interesting than collecting (and driving) old Nissan Sentras. Some people love Sentras, but they're a dime a dozen, and they're not the best the car industry had to offer then. The same is true here.
I remember when the wife and I were scraping change for canned beans and almost winning a bid on a TI 99/4 with it fitting in budget, like 10 years ago, funny how the market shifts cause now days you might find a later beige model that has nothing with it, for the price of a dinner for 2 at a chain restaurant
...but he got it with only a mouse and no system disks, so now he has to somehow find a way to take any of the disk images online but he can't because 800k disks can only properly be made on another mac without expensive hardware. So either he can find someone to make him the disks, he can pay some snob of an ass online for a copy of the disks for $10, or he'll go to your usual mac forum and ask. Of course the forum has people equally as brain dead who say he needs to buy disk emulators or recap the analog board or reset the PMU....when all you needed was one sane guy to say "I'll send you a system disk for the price of shipping".Oh my god! this was made by Steve Jobs in his basement in Auburn with his bare hands in 1973!
Nobody is born an expert.