earliest graphics display system in your collection?
Christian Corti
cc at corti-net.de
Thu Apr 20 04:02:36 CDT 2006
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, John Allain wrote:
> IBM's first PC, maybe 1977, about $20,000 then. Had BASIC
1975.
> and APL if you were lucky. Only the APL had graphics, a huge
> incentive to learn APL.
No, there wasn't graphics in APL, but there were the so called Print/Plot
routines for both BASIC and APL that allowed to plot graphs and text on
the 5103 printer. I have the software and manuals somewhere.
Christian
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