GARTHWILSON wrote:
There were also 80-column LCDs available in the tail end of the typewriter market when they made them so you could type a line and fix mistakes before it went on paper; but the availability was brief, as computers were coming within financial reach of the common household.
My older cousin had a wordprocessor/typewriter like that. Some of those later word processors and 80's laptop-ish computers also featured some larger LCD's, and some of those were graphics-capable instead of just characters. The Tandy Portable Wordprocessor WP-2 of 1989 had an 80x8 LCD text display. The TRS-80 Model 100 did 40x8, and the Model 600 could do 80x16 text or 480x128 graphics. The Commodore LCD computer prototypes used the same resolution screens as the Model 600.
I suppose you can get more colorful graphical displays easily these days, but they may cost more in real-money terms now for similar resolution in a smaller form factor.
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