Matthew


I remember going to NEC for whatever the PC show was called (on business honest) and I was incredibly impressed by the Atari graphics. At least I think it was the Atari - bouncing rotating beachball. This was at the time when all PCs had monochrome character based screens.

Roy Lambert

Roy Lambert wrote:

> I remember going to NEC for whatever the PC show was called (on
> business honest) and I was incredibly impressed by the Atari
> graphics. At least I think it was the Atari - bouncing rotating
> beachball. This was at the time when all PCs had monochrome character
> based screens.

The beachball was originally on the Amiga I think, and then everyone
did it on their computer to show it wasn't so special. That was Atari
ST days, but someone did it for the 800 too. I was a low-level
celebrity in those days. 8-)
http://page6.org/people/matthewj/matthewj.htm has some background, but
too late for offers on my old kit, it is now in a museum of computing
in Reading I think. How things have changed...

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Matthew Jones

Matthew


Neat

Roy Lambert