From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 8 15:16:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACE3737B419 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 15:16:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g08NGib62207; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 15:16:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 15:16:44 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200201082316.g08NGib62207@apollo.backplane.com> To: Terry Lambert Cc: D J Hawkey Jr , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981! References: <20.21dd4868.296bb1c2_aol.com@ns.sol.net> <3C3A810A.C616A903_mindspring.com@ns.sol.net> <200201081104.g08B4i309583@sheol.localdomain> <200201082138.g08LcFS61637@apollo.backplane.com> <3C3B7997.205E404A@mindspring.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :... :> in a wire select to an unused bank, which meant the screen was spaghetti :> on power-up until i LOAD'd a copy of the character set. : :UGH. You didn't load the RAM from the ROM at power on?!? No extra rom slots. Had to load from tape or floppy. :We had the "high resolution graphics" board in one machine; it's :where I did my first ray tracing code, for an Optics class. Now :*that* was a cool third party board, replacing the character :generator output with bitmapped graphics, and un-overlapping the :video memory by actually wiring in the chip select for more RAM. I seem to recall the CBM business machines (decked out PETs with a larger screen and other cool stuff) had some cool graphics capabilities, but the only time I was ever able to play with one was in the computer store. They were just too expensive for me at the time. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message