[vcf-midatlantic] Old Video Game Advertisements - musing on 80 column TV

[Ethan Dicks]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2022, 16:47 Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> ...Wonder how they wangled the bandwidth for clear 64 char text
> on their alleged TV monitor?
>

64 columns is viable on NTSC hardware, 80 is just too fuzzy.

It's why the A1000 had a Workbench software "switch" (default font size
option essentially),  between 64 and 80 columns for full-screen-width CLI
windows... TV vs RGB monitor

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