ISP Information:
A video standard that allowed a resolution of 320x200 with a whopping four colors. It was replaced byEGA. You can get 16 colors on CGA if you go down to 160x100resolution. This is the first real graphics standard for IBM PC-compatible computers.
ISP Glossary:
Computer Graphics Adapter - It was a dark and stormy night when TELECOM Digest Editor wrote: Actually, this page looks best when you come here to my house, sit at my terminal and view it.Damn, that's the most honest self-appraisal of a website that I'veseen in a long time!If it comes to that, I'll bring pizza. :)[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Way, way back, in the middle 1990's,in the pre-BA (Brain Aneurysm) days, I used to have a love affairwith javascript and web pages. You show me some javascript which wouldput a clock on a web page or do something equally fancy and I was allfor installing it; sounds, visual images, klutzy midi files, you nameit; I did it. Some of the javascripts even had provisions built inthem to *first examine the computer, get the working browser to answerback with its type/model, then modify the javascript itself as neededto give the best presentation of the page to the viewer.* Some of itwas absolutely crazy.Then following two heart attacks I had my brain aneurysm (which isbasically a serious stroke), was in the hospital for three months, andrehabilitative therapy for a year following. Never a very good webpage writer, my brain disease caused me to forget most of what code Ihad written and keep me (even today) still too tired and frustrated totry and figure out what I had written. In the process of putting theGoogle Adsense thing up (which coincidentally has already earned mefive dollars/eighty cents if the stats page on Google is to bebelieved) I managed to *totally jazz up* the latest-issue.html page soit would not run at all. One of my heros -- a guy living in Madison,WI who says he wants no mention in the Digest, so we will let it go atthat -- took my whining, tearful phone call Friday night, moved in onthat page on massis, and brought it around to even looking a wee bitbetter than I had it earlier. Thank you, Mrs. Kalabash, or whoever youare, but *you* know who you are and *I* know who you are.Actually the whole damn http://telecom-digest.org web site needs **muchcleaning up** to get back to its original purpose which was to be aweb-based archive of back issues, etc, and my hassle is my braindisease keeps me from giving it the attention it needs. If anyonewants to put together an index.html page and three or four otherinside pages to point at the files, etc, they're welcome to do it forme. PAT]
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