13 Jun
2006
13 Jun
'06
6:50 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I couldn't imagine installing a PC with CGA in an
office for, say, word
processing on an 8-hour per day basis. That would have been just plain
sadistic.
Well, duh. :-) People bought CGA for games, business graphics, art,
etc. I agree I don't think I ever saw CGA in a business setting (unless
it was the second adapter in a dual-monitor machine, which I DID see in
great use at a friend's trading firm in the early 1980s).
And if you needed graphics, Hercules (or clones
thereof) was very nice.
Not until early 1983, anyway.
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