Nicole ExpressMar 8
New blog post! A what-if scenario where we try to see how a home computer designer might've dealt with the field-sequential color television, had the Korean War not stopped that standards' rollout. Enjoy! https://nicole.express/2026/the-apple-that-wasnt.html
Show threadKroc Camen
@nicole This is very "The size of the space shuttle was dictated by the width of two horses" (debunked, but a good corollary regardless). So much of the field of consumer computing was shaped by standards that were invented either before computing or before computing meant VDUs.
Mar 8 at 1:37pmWeb