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Life In Four Colors

Somehow CGA graphics, the IBM PC’s first take on color, haven’t completely faded into history. But those four colors inspire a whole lot of nostalgia.

Jun 15, 2017

 Related Tags: tv history, television, computers, computer history, printing, dots per inch, pixels per inch, computer screens, screens, pixels

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