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JackbyDev@programming.dev āØ1ā© āØweekā© agoItās not film, but the Apple II (1971) used a monochromatic display or something for technical reasons. Iām trying to find the quote but unfortunately I canāt so this is from memory. It was something like going with black and white allowed them a better frame rate/resolution over color (and for cheaper).
Itās possible similar tradeoffs existed for monochromatic film into the '90s.
HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org āØ1ā© āØweekā© ago
The Apple IIās big selling point, compared to the other two big brands introduced in 1977 (the Radio Shack TRS-80 and Commodore PET) was colour.
But it was a weird and colour scheme that took advantage of clever Wozniak hacks to make it viable on a cheap machine. Good video hardware, and enough memory for the colour display, were spendy. Thatās why even into the 1980s youād have machines like the ZX Spectrum with limitations like āevery 8x8 block can only have 2 coloursā which used less memory, and 40-column screens that were readable on TVs instead of dedicated high-res monitorsā¦
JackbyDev@programming.dev āØ1ā© āØweekā© ago
Maybe Iām getting it confused with a different apple computer then besides the apple 2. I definitely have seen a clip talking about this. Maybe the original iMac or something.