Discussion of large systems

[Adrian Graham]

On 6/11/06 01:25, "Ray Arachelian" <ray at arachelian.com> wrote:

> They are all versions of the C. Itoh 8510.  I'm not familiar with the
> DEC LA50, but it's very likely that, it too, is a C. Itoh.

It's identical to the ADMP only in DEC colours :) I don't have one and a
swift google image search turns up nothing, but just imagine a cream version
of the ADMP with a special DEC ROM and you're there. A note on the
Old-Computers.com site says the LA50 was made by NEC however, perhaps the
NEC one was C.Itoh too?
 
> QuickDraw) do support color, although its display is 1 bit black and white,
> so, if you print a graphic that has color on this printer, you'll get color.
>  I believe these were 16 colors, so 4 bit.

I've got a picture of that one somewhere but finding it quickly amongst all
my pictures might be difficult!
 
> to the advertisements.  I can imagine that it must have used a single
> period character to poke dots, so it must have been super slow.  I
> couldn't find any real docs for it however.

Time to dig my CDs out I think.....

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