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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by DannyB on Monday March 01 2021, @05:50PM (6 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 01 2021, @05:50PM (#1118524) Journal

    64 characters x 16 lines of text.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 01 2021, @08:50PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 01 2021, @08:50PM (#1118605)

    That the radio shack portable one? I thought the TRS-80 with the integrated screen and floppy drives had a bit higher text resolution... but then if memory serves, compared to a commodore computer of the same era, any competing computer looked like it could display more text on the screen compared to a vic 20 or c64.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Monday March 01 2021, @09:43PM (3 children)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 01 2021, @09:43PM (#1118635) Journal

      The TRS-80 that I used way predates era of commodore vic 20 and c64. This is back in 1977 when the "holy trinity" appeared in BYTE magazine. Three standard computers that would allow software developers to target standard systems. (This is way, way before the IBM PC.) At this point in time (about 1977) every personal computer was a unique creation with nothing compatible. How keyboards were interfaced to the cpu was totally no standard -- so you didn't even have device compatibility with things as basic as a keyboard -- unless you were rich enough to afford a serial terminal.

      That "holy trinity" I mentioned was:
      * Apple II
      * TRS-80
      * Commodore PET

      At this point in time the TRS-80 computer was all inside the keyboard. Sort of like a Raspbery Pi 400. They keyboard had connectors for:
      * power supply
      * monitor
      * cassette tape recorder

      The monitor and cassette tape recorder had their own power supplies, so you needed three electrical outlets total.

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      • (Score: 2) by McGruber on Wednesday March 10 2021, @10:41PM (2 children)

        by McGruber (3038) on Wednesday March 10 2021, @10:41PM (#1122479)

        This is back in 1977 when the "holy trinity" appeared in BYTE magazine. Three standard computers that would allow software developers to target standard systems.

        That "holy trinity" I mentioned was:
        * Apple II
        * TRS-80
        * Commodore PET

        IIRC, they were "standard computers" because all three came with versions of Microsoft BASIC in their ROMs.

        • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 10 2021, @10:52PM

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 10 2021, @10:52PM (#1122483) Journal

          A few years ago I re-read all of the BYTE magazines up until about 1984, at which point after the introduction of the Mac, I get kind of disgusted with BYTE magazine. But I liked its early days.

          Their meaning of the word "standard" was that each, on its own, presented a uniform platform that software developers could target. You could write for a TRS-80 and have a market for however many million that Tandy / RS sold. Similar for Apple. Similar for PET.

          Prior to this, every "home brew", or "microcomputer" was different. They didn't even have things like keyboard interface standard. The best uniformity you could dare hope for on keyboard was a serial input from a serial keyboard -- at best. This is why there wasn't much commercial software prior to this "holy trinity".

          Within each platform the BASIC was also standard. So you could also write commercial software for that. But the best programs were machine code for the specific platform. Such as: VisiCalc.

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        • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 11 2021, @03:14PM

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 11 2021, @03:14PM (#1122751) Journal

          Download old BYTE magazines from here: https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm [americanradiohistory.com]

          Or higher quality scans here: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine [archive.org]

          Or Popular Electronics: https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Guide.htm [americanradiohistory.com]

          Creative Computing: https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing [archive.org]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @10:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 09 2021, @10:03PM (#1122023)

    Back in the day I had some slaves rendering frame by frame at 48x48 tiled bricks in the courtyard. They went on strike, revolted. I still wonder why?
    Nowadays I have an API that renders websites to my 45mpx Canon R5's sensor at 8192 x 5464. Should I go to Fuji's 100mpx?