Acadia opened this issue on Jan 31, 2009 · 43 posts
bantha posted Sat, 31 January 2009 at 12:33 PM
True, not too long ago, one terabyte was expensive, enterprise storage. That triggers memories....
I live in Hannover, Germany. We have one of the biggest computer fairs worldwide in Hannover - the CeBit. The CeBit started 1986 as a fair of it's own, it was part of the Hannover Industry Fair in the earlier years.
In the first CeBit, I remember seeing a "True Color Graphics Subsystem". If I remember right, it was available in a resolution of 320200 or in 640400, both could be connected via the serial interface (RS-232, still in many computers. If you still use a modem, it may be connected over that port). It took some time to transfer an image to the system, it was expensive - close to one million dollar at that time, if I remember right. I was really impressed, and thought - that would be great, if stuff like this would be cheap enough for normal people - but I did not expect that to happen.
Today, much better graphics adapters a thrown away, just because they are to slow and too bad. Every adapter is better than this.
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