I got a Mac II, and a SuperMac Spectrum/8 Series III video card, but I could only afford the 16" 832×624 monitor:
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Creative use of 1-bit video with 24-bit palette entries:
![[Linked Image from user-images.githubusercontent.com]](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9678431/174646313-5cec7828-8897-4c50-9de5-c17157f6bbcb.png)
Nice, but it’s looking crowded already:
![[Linked Image from user-images.githubusercontent.com]](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9678431/174645558-1d6b9a3b-e353-4ea1-b187-932c38a12899.png)
If only we could do something useful with all that expensive VRAM…
![[Linked Image from user-images.githubusercontent.com]](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9678431/174645730-985fc7c3-75af-4cae-954c-5caa4016ed5e.png)
Hey, where did my hard disk icon go?
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Oh, it’s over here:
![[Linked Image from user-images.githubusercontent.com]](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9678431/174646407-09e175ac-f93f-477c-81e3-76b2a01d75b5.png)
It’s gonna be a long trip to the trash can!
Lots more real estate, even if you can’t see it all at once:
![[Linked Image from user-images.githubusercontent.com]](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9678431/174646462-d43fd199-32eb-4ae0-9575-fbeb097aa8ea.png)
Maybe we want to take a closer look at Susan Kare’s artwork:
![[Linked Image from user-images.githubusercontent.com]](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9678431/174646548-565e20c1-b0e5-4351-abb6-5b73c9448158.png)
That’s hardware zoom – no copying from an off-screen buffer.
Off-centre alerts are disconcerting: