Colour Maximite Add-on

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Nick Guru Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: Australia Posts: 512	Posted: 09:30am 26 Jun 2011         donmck said   If you want hires col(o)r graphics, you may be in the wrong group. Just check the Group at the top of the page. This is the Maximite group. Sorry, but I really think this is heading in the wrong direction. You can buy a netbook with windows CE for $89 from ebay if that is what you want. If you use Maximite as a control device for the outside world, and spit the info at a PC type device for pretty displays, or other PC features, then I could live with this. Sorry Don. I agree with you for most of the way but I think you're ignoring the aspect of the Maximite which makes it great. Clearly, you see the MM as a device for the easy interfacing of external circuits and output to a PC. That's fine, that's what it is and what I think Geoff's original vision for the MM. But it is also a "personal computer" very much in the vein of the early pioneering systems such as the TRS-80, Apple II and Commodores. There are users out there who are having fun relieving those early days of an instant boot system, ready to be programmed immediately in old fashioned BASIC. We can't ignore this group. Colour is not just a "Pretty Display". Colour is used to also convey information to the user more clearly. Colour graphs with multiple plot lines are confusing without each trace being assigned it's own colour. Colour is not restricted to modern systems. Remember, the Apple II, which came out about the same time as the TRS-80, was colour (if you could afford a color monitor). And that's another point, those that have a monitor connected to their MM (most I assume?) have already got a colour VGA monitor attached. It's there and the MM is not using it. Like I said in an earlier e-mail, the upgrade should be a low cost add-on. If it costs too much then I agree, why buy it when a netbook costs $300. But at least with the MM, you can say,"I built my own computer and look what I can do with it!".