On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:13:20 -0500, HK wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:17:55 -0800 (PST), "jim.isbell"
wrote:

On Mar 2, 9:38 am, "Bill Kearney" wrote:

I have been on the internet since the days when it was black and
white, text only.
Gee, then you're a newbie. Most early screens weren't black and white
(plasma, amber, green, etc)
Not so. Most were Black and White CRT. If you had lots of money
maybe you had green or amber. I had amber..

I went with the first IBM PC, the 8088, 64k mem, single floppy deal.
Tricked it all out a bit later, so it was a hot rod. Heh.
Think I paid 2700 bucks for the barebones.
The IBM monitor was the green.
Clones were coming with amber monitors, and to my eyes they were
"tacky." Never told anybody that until now.

--Vic


You got screwed, too, eh? Did you add a second floppy drive at the cost
of, what was it, about $350? I sold that machine off and got an Eagle
8086 based "rocket" with a graphics card and an amber monitor that would
do graphics.

I never looked at it as "screwed." That was the going price, they
weren't discounted, and I was an IT guy. But it didn't exactly help
my budget, for sure. Never went with another floppy, but a 20meg HD
and a loaded AST 6-pack soon set me back another 1200 bucks or so.
My view then ('83?) was to stay entirely IBM compatible, and it
worked. Wouldn't even think of using MS-Dos, had to be PC-Dos.
Stuck with pure IBM through the 486 chip, then started building my
own.

--Vic