14 Jun
2006
14 Jun
'06
6:48 p.m.
--- Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Funny thing was is they sent me two Herc Plus cards
free gratis and offered
to send me the InColor if I wanted one, but I
couldn't see the logic in my
having one, since EGA had already been introduced.
Let me get this strait. They offered you one for
free, and you turned it down? Chances are you'd still
have it, and I could bug ya for it. Dang.
I guess Hercules thought they could draw away that
portion of the market that bought their mono cards.
But the only reason they were successful were because
they built onto IBM's standard, and didn't supplant
it.
Besides, the Herc Plus
cards were really nifty for the time--downloadable
fonts with 12 bit
character codes. Heck, if there was a video card
that could do that and
proportional spacing, I'd probably still be
text-only today.
The Tandy 2000 had that capability also. I have a few
of these I'd be willing to trade off if anyone's
interested.
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