You'd still need a Wordstar-like app and a VisiCalc-like app (pref. Lotus 123-like).
VGA adapter means you have to wait until 1987 to run this, otherwise you'd deal with CGA's non-square pixels. EGA support would only be possible in Oct 1984.
You'd still need a Wordstar-like app and a VisiCalc-like app (pref. Lotus 123-like).
VGA adapter means you have to wait until 1987 to run this, otherwise you'd deal with CGA's non-square pixels. EGA support would only be possible in Oct 1984.
The IBM 1501 PGC (640x480x256) was available in 1983.
But was exceedingly rare, in the pre 640x480 VGA era the common video interfaces on 8088, 8086, 80186, 80286 were MDA, Hercules, CGA, or later on, EGA.