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- "IBM OBSERVATIONS" Conference 84.14797 MIKE GREENLY, organizer,
- about "WATCHING THE MARKET LEADER'S STRATEGIC DECISIONS AND
- REACTIONS IN THE MARKET PLACE" (answers: 182)
-
- Answer 178 (of 182) DAVE ALLEN, on WED, SEP 12 1984 at 13:23
- (2972 characters)
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- IBM announces graphics displays, other PC features (From Dow
- Jones Wire Service 09/10)
-
- International Business Machines Corp announced the introduction
- of two graphics displays for its personal computers as well as
- advanced features and programs to enable IBM PC's to construct
- engineering models, do high-level scientific computations, and
- control instruments in labs and plants.
-
- The company also announced more than a dozen telecommunications
- products to make it easier to move information in offices, labs,
- and plants. IBM said its new IBM PC professional graphics
- display and professional graphics controller can quickly
- generate and display advanced color graphics in up to 256 colors
- simultaneously. The display is priced at $1,295 and the
- controller at $2,995.
-
- IBM also introduced a second PC display priced at $849 and an
- adapter card at $524 that can enhance the definition color range
- and use of graphics in the IBM PC, PC XT and PC AT. It said a
- new five-inch expansion option card increases user memory by 256
- kilobytes in the IBM Personal Computer Personal Computer XT and
- Portable PC.
-
- The other telecommunications products and enhancements announced
- by IBM today include an expansion of SNA to enable millions of
- devices such as workstations, banking, and retail machines to be
- connected in a single network.
-
- (From WALL STREET JOURNAL 09/11/84)
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- IBM's new products cover a wide range of markets and products.
- They follow recent price cuts on IBM's most powerful mainframe
- computers and the August introduction of the PC AT desktop
- computer. And they indicate that IBM will expand into the
- narrower science and engineering markets where it has previously
- lagged, while simultaneously moving more aggressively in the
- general business markets it already dominates.
-
- The new products include two more-powerful PC video screens, new
- models in its 4300 and System/38 minicomputer families, and a
- number of telecommunications, networking devices and
- computer-aided design programs.
-
- IBM introduced connection devices to link the 4300 central
- computer to more powerful work stations that are being built
- around its Personal Computer family. To help boost the PC as an
- engineering tool it also announced a new, high-resolution video
- screen and accessory that lets the PC manipulate complicated
- images such as three-dimensional drawings.
-
- The company wants to encourage outside software concerns to
- build on this new capability, much as it did in propelling the
- PC to leadership in the business market. "We see this the same
- way," said Ed Marill, a product manager at IBM's Boca Raton,
- Fla.-based entry systems division.
-
- IBM also unveiled another new video screen display for its PC,
- for business customers, that can show financial graphs and text
- at the same time. That removes one of the advantages that
- Compaq Computer Corp.'s new Deskpro computer had over the IBM
- PC.
-
- Answer 180 (of 182) LOUIS, on WED, SEP 12 1984 at 20:18 (58
- characters)
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- What are the specs for that $800 graphics board, anyway?
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- Answer 181 (of 182) LOUIS, on WED, SEP 12 1984 at 20:52 (868
- characters)
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- To answer my own question:
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- IBM just announced two levels of enhanced graphics for the PC
- and new graphics software.
-
- But, GRRR, no mention of NAPLPS.
-
- The $800 enhanced graphics adapter will display any 16 colors
- from a palette of 64 at 640 X 350 resolution. There is no
- mention in the release of a lower resolution mode with a bigger
- palette, but who knows? There is also a higher resolution RGB
- display to match the board.
-
- Then they have a $4000 box which allows simultaneous display of
- any 256 colors from a palette of 4096 at 640 X 480 resolution,
- and will also emulate standard IBM graphics. It has 256K of
- graphics RAM built in.
-
- And they announced GKS (Graphics Kernal System) for PC-DOS.
-
- As I said, no mention of NAPLPS. Still, I guess we have to
- welcome the enhanced graphics adapter. The old one really was
- paltry...
-
- Answer 182 (of 182) BK, on MON, OCT 01 1984 at 00:33 (340
- characters)