On Saturday, December 11, 2004, at 04:05 PM, Ken wrote:
--------- Well, I have an old Mac II with 6 video cards installed. Had a spreadsheet program as its only real application when I got it. Must have been some sight!
In 1987 when the Mac II came out I saw a demonstration of it. They had 2 or three huge monitors (1024x768 and color, size is relative). Remember that prior to this the high end Mac was a Mac Plus with a resolution of 512 x 352. The whole thing just blew me away. Every part of it just wowed me. Seeing a window opened across multiple monitors was amazing. Old MacDraw which was written before there was any standard color display was using colors on the screen, pretty cool.
What was particularly amazing about all this was that the OS was written to support most of this even before the the SE and II were released. There were third party video add ons for the Plus.
All of this is SOP now but back then it was a huge thing. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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