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Aucbvax.1929 fa.works utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!guyton@RAND-UNIX Thu Jun 25 13:05:19 1981 Re: Chromatics Personal Workstation The Chromatic 7900 workstation has been announced for a while now and they had one at the Chicago NCC. Their address/phone:

Chromatics 2558 Mountain Industrial Boulevard Tucker, Georgia 30084 (404)493-7000

Here a few facts off their CGC 7900 literature:

16-Bit processor (MC68000) 19" color monitor 1024x768 viewable bitmap (in a 1024x1024 bitmap memory) Up to 256 simultaneously displayed colors Palette of over 16 million colors (i.e. 8-bit DAC for RGB) 10MB Fixed Winchester Disk (8.4 MB formatted) Dual floppies light pen, joystick Maximum of 16-bitmap planes (no more than 8 displayed at once) Maximum of 2MB of processor memory

Rand reviewed this machine last year and might have purchased one if it hadn't been quite so new (at the time they had not delivered any, and we needed a mature system). When I priced it, a useful system was running around $60K.

Oh yes, they're planning on running the 68000 unix look-alike.

Jim

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