[vcf-midatlantic] 8-bits and 80 columns

RETRO Innovations go4retro at go4retro.com
Sat Jun 25 19:56:22 UTC 2022


On 6/25/2022 2:51 PM, John Heritage wrote:
> Nice re Coco 3 - did not realize that !  Makes sense it is a "later" 
> 8bit computer, 1986 iirc.
Yep.  And, I mis-typed, though I knew better.  RGB monitor, not VGA.
>
> The C64 soft80 idea I think also made it to the Atari 8bit but I don't 
> recall any vintage software with it.  Neat that it sounds like C64 at 
> least had terminal programs using it.

Word Processing apps used it as well, and I think a spreadsheet app used 
it too.




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