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- From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
- Subject: Re: history of early cbm machines
- Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
- Message-ID: <DnsxD8.Mn9@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 15:51:08 GMT
- References: <4hgl6a$2fi@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4hh106$12t@pyrrhus-f.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
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- In article <4hh106$12t@pyrrhus-f.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>,
- Andre Fachat <fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
- >Glblcompco (glblcompco@aol.com) wrote:
- >: Can someone clue me in on the order in which the PET, the VIC-20, the
- >: CBM-64 and the CBM-128 were made? And approximate dates? Is there any
- >: description somewhere of the differences in their graphical capabilities?
- >: Did any of them come with "hi-res" graphics
- >: [you-can-change-any-pixel-on-the-screen] vs. [lots of funny looking
- >: characters you can use as graphics]?
- >
- >Well, I don't know about the dates, but the order and the graphical
- >capabilities I know (at least of a few).
- >
- >Well, I think first was the PET (2001) or so. Then they renamed (at least
- >here in europe) the machines to CBM something. The CBM 30??, 40?? and 80?? -
- >replace the ?? with the RAM size (I know about 3032, 4032 and 8032. The
- >8096 had Bank switching and the 8296 was a bit more developed)
- >They appeared in this order and all only had character graphics, no pixel
- >graphics. In fact there is a 6545 (or 6845) CRT controller in these machines.
- >The 30?? and 40?? had 40 column screen, the 80?? 80 columns.
- >
-
- Some companies made boards for the Fat 4032 and 8032 that would do bit-mapped
- graphics. When I'm next near my TPUG magazine collection I'll try to dig out
- the ad.
-
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