2026-11-07 14:55 UTC
@ajsadauskas@mastodon.social @retrogaming the capability of the monitors was also a reason that the higher resolution mode was limited to 80x24, even though there was enough memory to do 80x25.
For my own Microbees - while employed I replaced my 56k model with two 128k models - I rewrote the BIOS EPROM to do 80x25 and it worked on my monitors quite okay - but only just.
Testing that on many monitors showed that some would require tweaking, so I understood why they kept it at 80x24.
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@ajsadauskas@mastodon.social 2026-11-08 06:39
@geraldew@fosstodon.org @retrogaming Thanks for sharing 😊 In Britain and America, whole movies have been made about the early history of home computers. And books. And countless YouTube videos. Meanwhile, in Australia we've done a far worse job at documenting our early computer history. Even important innovations, like the first battery-powered laptop, the Dulmont Magnum. And the MicroBee, a machine that was the first computer a generation of local IT professionals used.