Remembering Better Mono Graphics
No matter what kind of computer or phone you are reading this on, it probably has a graphics system that would have been a powerful computer on its own back in the 1980s.
When the IBM PC came out, you had two choices: the CGA card for color graphics, or the MDA for text. Although color might seem like the obvious choice today, the MDA was cheaper and had significantly higher resolution, making it easier to read.
As the market dictated, companies filled the gap with new solutions, such as the Hercules card, which supported high-resolution monochrome text and a graphics mode.
[The 8-bit Guy] has a look at these old cards and how they were different from their peers.
Author's summary: Exploring old graphics cards.
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