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First IBM PC's did have a color monitor. It was however only green.
"Tim Slattery" wrote in message
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> Bob I wrote:
>
>>Then you'll have to tell IBM that they are wrong.
>>http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc25/pc25_birth.html
>
> Hmm... that article quotes Dave Bradley as saying "...We started to
> build a prototype to take - by the end of the year - to a then
> little-known company called Microsoft." That completely skips the
> story of IBMers going to Digital Research first, but missing
> connections with Gary Kildall, and then as a second choice going to
> Seattle to see Microsoft.
>
> It also says that it had a color monitor with 16 colors! My
> recollection - which may well be incomplete - is that we didn't get 16
> colors until EGA graphics debuted, years later. Hmm...looking at it
> again, it says the monitor had "16 foreground and background colors",
> but that "Its graphics were in four colors". I don't remember having
> any color until the Hercules cards sometime in the mid-80s.
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
> Slattery_T@bls.gov
> http://members.cox.net/slatteryt
"Tim Slattery" wrote in message
news:lmqbr55j17p30bi68d4hoedjr6v5o20v9o@4ax.com...
> Bob I wrote:
>
>>Then you'll have to tell IBM that they are wrong.
>>http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc25/pc25_birth.html
>
> Hmm... that article quotes Dave Bradley as saying "...We started to
> build a prototype to take - by the end of the year - to a then
> little-known company called Microsoft." That completely skips the
> story of IBMers going to Digital Research first, but missing
> connections with Gary Kildall, and then as a second choice going to
> Seattle to see Microsoft.
>
> It also says that it had a color monitor with 16 colors! My
> recollection - which may well be incomplete - is that we didn't get 16
> colors until EGA graphics debuted, years later. Hmm...looking at it
> again, it says the monitor had "16 foreground and background colors",
> but that "Its graphics were in four colors". I don't remember having
> any color until the Hercules cards sometime in the mid-80s.
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
> Slattery_T@bls.gov
> http://members.cox.net/slatteryt