Aucbvax.1929
fa.works
utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!guyton@RAND-UNIX
Thu Jun 25 13:05:19 1981
Re: Chromatics Personal Workstation
The Chromatic 7900 workstation has been announced for a while now and they
had one at the Chicago NCC. Their address/phone:
Chromatics
2558 Mountain Industrial Boulevard
Tucker, Georgia 30084
(404)493-7000
Here a few facts off their CGC 7900 literature:
16-Bit processor (MC68000)
19" color monitor
1024x768 viewable bitmap (in a 1024x1024 bitmap memory)
Up to 256 simultaneously displayed colors
Palette of over 16 million colors (i.e. 8-bit DAC for RGB)
10MB Fixed Winchester Disk (8.4 MB formatted)
Dual floppies
light pen, joystick
Maximum of 16-bitmap planes (no more than 8 displayed at once)
Maximum of 2MB of processor memory
Rand reviewed this machine last year and might have purchased one if it
hadn't been quite so new (at the time they had not delivered any, and we
needed a mature system). When I priced it, a useful system was running
around $60K.
Oh yes, they're planning on running the 68000 unix look-alike.
Jim
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