[NTLK] News from the Weird ROM board

[Ed Kummel]

No. I suspect that this is eWorld:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld


It was an online service that Apple put together to compete with AOL, CompuServe and Prodigy. It was designed to be a graphical environment that rivaled the ease of use that the Mac OS was so famous for.

Ed
web/gadget guru
 
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 From: Matthias Melcher <mm at matthiasm.com>
To: newtontalk at newtontalk.net 
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 2:40 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLK] News from the Weird ROM board
 


What ist this? Internet Explorer?

http://www.pda-soft.de/common/img/hardware/2x00/WeirdRomBoard/WeirdRomBoardImages/IMG_0056C750_t.jpg


I was surprised to find B&W and grayscale versions of the same image on the original ROM. After upgrading to a grayscale screen, they were obviously not confident enough it would work, so they kept the B&W images just in case? Or for Fax/Print output?

According to Paul, the ROM contains already a lot of (buggy) code for full color graphics.


Matthias

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