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From: Unknown on 2 Apr 2010 11:18
First IBM PC's did have a color monitor. It was however only green.
"Tim Slattery" <Slattery_T(a)bls.gov> wrote in message
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> Bob I <birelan(a)yahoo.com> 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.
>
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From: Bob I on 2 Apr 2010 11:38


Tim Slattery wrote:

> Bob I <birelan(a)yahoo.com> 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.

Timeline and sequence
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_43/b3905109_mz063.htm

>
> 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.
>

That means you could "choose between 16 colors"
http://nemesis.lonestar.org/reference/video/cga.html

From: Ken Blake, MVP on 2 Apr 2010 11:54
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:18:41 -0700, "Greg Russell"
<grussell(a)invalid.con> wrote:

> In news:8obar5h4gqbu5i764k11d2qrmajlu46tps(a)4ax.com,
> Ken Blake, MVP <kblake(a)this.is.an.invalid.domain> typed:
>
> >>> The Intel 8088 CPU, used in the original IBM PC, ...
> >>
> >> No, it was an 8086.
> >
> > Sorry, but that's not correct. It was an 8088.
>
> I've still got an original IBM PC, and it states right on the processor that
> it's an 8086. The 8088 was produced soon after, and I was sorry that I had
> rushed into the purchase so soon.


Well, it's hard to argue if you say that's what yours says, but see

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=274

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa031599.htm
>

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