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   Leo :elixir: (shooboo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 22:25:52 JST Leo :elixir:

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs look behind you!

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     Coy Meeks (coymeeks@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 22:59:50 JST Coy Meeks

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs dude swinging from the chandelier FTW

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     Jyrgen N (jyrgenn@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 05:15:54 JST Jyrgen N

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs IIRC MDA, CGA, EGA were pure digital, only VGA used analog RGB signals on the monitor interface. But then I could be wrong, after all this is 35 years ago.
     (We got VGA monitors in our university PC pools starting 1988. That was where I spent most of my time if not working, studying, or sleeping. Or at least it felt that way.)

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     Jyrgen N (jyrgenn@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 06:07:49 JST Jyrgen N

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Ah ok. Could be very similar for MDA, I guess; dunno about EGA.
     EGA was actually the first I saw at all (on a PC, I mean, not counting the PET in the 70s and the block mode terminals on the uni data center's Cybers).
     I had a slightly twisted beginning of computing experience, going from 8 bits to 60 and then 16. Finally felt really comfortable when I reached 32 (VAXen, Suns etc.).