browsing through old (german) #computer #magazine #ads from the late #1980s, I am even more wondering how on earth those DM 5.500,- #monochrome, beeping tin buckets without a #GUI could even be sold to anyone when there were DM 900,- #Amigas with 4096 colors, digital sound and a GUI ... we are a lost species and it shows ...
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@Wintermute_BBS GUIs aren't inherently superior.
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@mos_8502 no. but colors are.
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@Wintermute_BBS @mos_8502 Not on those type of colour monitors or, worse, TVs. Monochrome monitors were so much crisper for a long time into the 90's.
I fondly remember the Eizo 6000M 21" greyscale monitor I had for a while at dayjob in the mid-90's. Soo crisp. No fucking dot pitch. No Trinitron Lines.
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@mc @mos_8502 maybe but it also depnds on the monitor. I only had the average Hercules (tm) monochome type they were selling at large quantities these days. And those were good, indeed. But "crisp" is not a word I would use for them.
I liked the Atari SM124 - that one was a very great monochrome monitor!
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@Wintermute_BBS @mos_8502 Oh, yes, the SM124 was nice. Got a Sun 3/60 in -91 with a fair 19" monochrome monitor. 1152x900? Pretty nice. The ELC I got later had the same resolution on 17" monochrome. Now we're talking crisp, again.
In 1987 I had a Hercules-type monitor, too. It was OK and much, much better than the old colour TV I had with my Commodore before. Ugh...
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