I chuckled at the inflation of the VGA's color palette in the Tandy 5000 MC ad. ...

		nitrogen on Jan 17, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How they used to sell computers: Oldest computer a... I chuckled at the inflation of the VGA's color palette in the Tandy 5000 MC ad. The VGA could display 16 or 256 simultaneous colors, but any palette entry could be changed to any 18-bit (6-bit per channel) RGB triplet (i.e. 256ki colors).