At 17:52 -0400 on 18/07/01, Amber Rhea wrote:
>> The old compact Macs (excepting the color Classic
>> and Color Classic II) all had 1 bit, black and white
>> video. With certain ones of the Micron internal
>> videocards for the SE/30 you could install an optional
>> greyscale adaptor to get (how many bits?) greyscale
>> video on the built in monitor. 8bit color on an
>> external monitor and greyscale on the internal
>> would make the SE/30 real nice. Then if its one that
>> can take a IIsi ROM SIMM you could run Mac OS 7.6. ;)
>
>I'm sure my brain just isn't grasping something but... I don't understand
>what is meant by one-bit video. How do we have shades of grey on our Pluses?
We don't. One-bit is either on (white) or off (black). Nothing between.
p
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