Research Machines: Graphics machine

There weren't many constants during the microcomputer explosion, but if there was one it was possibly this: Research Machines' 380Z.

First launched in 1977, it was still going here in 1983, and would continue for another two years into 1985.

This advert is for the HRG - High Resolution Graphics - board, which came with its own 16K memory so it didn't eat into that available for programs, unlike the BBC Micro where the hi-res mode consumed 20K of the 32K available.

The advert also mentions GINO - Graphical INput Output - which started out as a graphics package but which had become a language for device-independent graphics in its own right. GINO actually still exists in 2024, some 41 years later[source: http://gino.co.uk/].