Back in the day, early 80s ('83 or so), at the office we had a machine that, as I recall, was called "Florida Computer Graphics".
It was notable for two reasons.
First, it had a very nice, full color, square pixels screen. This was very novel for the time. Second, it had the first inkjet printer I'd encountered plugged into it. I don't know who made the printer.
It had a BASIC that was extended to offer graphics commands, and we were able to print the screens to the printer.
I can't say what OS it had. I barely recall it having a floppy drive (but it must have, none of the micros we had then had hard drives). I think it was a Z80.
All I recall was that I would write programs to create charts, expanded pie charts. We also got it to do the Mandelbrot images, which were very hot at the time.
The Director of our department came down with the Scientific American (I think) article and said "Can you guys do this?" and, off we went. We discovered the fastest way to do them was to run the FORTRAN version on the university mainframe (it was really fast), and then download the resulting data and render them locally.
I have no photos, I recall the computer being brown with a rounded monitor.
So, curious if anyone has ever heard of this machine. Light googling hasn't found anything, but the words are really common so I get everything.
It was notable for two reasons.
First, it had a very nice, full color, square pixels screen. This was very novel for the time. Second, it had the first inkjet printer I'd encountered plugged into it. I don't know who made the printer.
It had a BASIC that was extended to offer graphics commands, and we were able to print the screens to the printer.
I can't say what OS it had. I barely recall it having a floppy drive (but it must have, none of the micros we had then had hard drives). I think it was a Z80.
All I recall was that I would write programs to create charts, expanded pie charts. We also got it to do the Mandelbrot images, which were very hot at the time.
The Director of our department came down with the Scientific American (I think) article and said "Can you guys do this?" and, off we went. We discovered the fastest way to do them was to run the FORTRAN version on the university mainframe (it was really fast), and then download the resulting data and render them locally.
I have no photos, I recall the computer being brown with a rounded monitor.
So, curious if anyone has ever heard of this machine. Light googling hasn't found anything, but the words are really common so I get everything.
