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    Re: Who here in Legoland has a Cable modem? —Matthew Miller
   (...) How about the people who buy their spiffy new computer with a 17" monitor and 16MB AGP graphics card and run it in the default 640x480 16-color mode? Are you concerned about them? I bet they're a majority. :) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Who here in Legoland has a Cable modem? —Mike Stanley
     (...) I've worked with literally hundreds of brand new (as in I took them out of the box) systems over the last year. With the exception of a few Compaq pieces of junk, I've never seen one that ran 640x480x16 color out of the box. -- The parts you (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Who here in Legoland has a Cable modem? —Matthew Miller
     (...) That's good to hear -- I'm glad computer manufacturers are getting over that. I haven't been following PCs for the last year or so, but before that, it was utterly common practice for machines to ship running in default VGA mode. (25 years ago, 18-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Who here in Legoland has a Cable modem [or DSL]? —Lindsay Frederick Braun
    (...) "It's a Voodoo3, so I suppose I have to run it in 3 colours." Actually, my monitor is on the fritz and having little seizures, but it's an OK 17" set. I still run at 800x600, though--1024x768 is too tiny for me! I do love my Voodoo3, however. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
 

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