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>>It wasn't until VGA (1987)... Personally, I didn't know anyone doing graphics on them. They were for pure text usages: programming, point-of-sale, etc. I thi

>>It wasn't until VGA (1987)... Personally, I didn't know anyone doing graphics on them. They were for pure text usages: programming, point-of-sale, etc. I think that's the reason they eventually died out: It wasn't people were giving them up, it was the home market taking off and people wanting color for games, photo editing, etc. People that worked on computers all day, were still using and loving their amber displays. I was still using amber Wyse terminals well into the 2000s...Its like the old joke: Would you rather have a Wyse display or a 3270 keyboard ?

dragonwriter 5y ago
> Personally, I didn't know anyone doing graphics on them. They were for pure text usages: programming, point-of-sale, etc Sure, and it wasn't until VGA that color displays could match MDA text quality, in theory, with the right display. But even then they were much more expensive.