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Way back in the 1980s we paid 12 grand for a 6 MHz IBM PC AT, 32 MB hard drive, amber text on a black background work monitor, and hooked to a fancy RGB monitor that displayed 256 color! I could use the menus of the program with a tablet to input the different commands, select the colors of the final graphic, add in the text and whatever else, then output it to a color slide film with 12.7 million colors at very high resolution. The film recorder was 30 grand by itself.
It usually blew away the clients that came in and were used to using monochrome monitors to see a computer with TWO monitors, and a monitor with a color display.
A few months later the 16 color display cards and then the full 256 color monitors started to show up.
My CPA uses a computer with 4 monitors.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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