For years, I used to use the 80-column text screen on the old Apple II
as displayed on an AppleColor monitor (either the composite one for the
IIe or the analog RGB one for the IIGS) as the metric for minimum
readability for text.
However, in recent years nobody knows what I'm talking about when I say
"If it's smaller than the 80-column text screen on an Apple IIe it's
too small". Or if they have an idea what an Apple IIe is, they don't
know what the text looked like.
Could somebody suggest a better way to talk to the next generation too
young to remember the Apple II? I'm not sure the best way to describe
the text size on an Apple II.
The context is something like talking about say the text in the
Battletech game from Harebrained Schemes / Paradox Interactive, or how
a web page is rendered on my phone and being annoyed at how small the
"Mobile friendly" version appears, especially if I try to zoom and the
site forces me to use horizontal scrolling.
We had Word Wrap on the Apple II+ with DogPaw and numerous other
programs for god's sake, why can't a phone with a processor 40 years
more advanced do simple word wrap?
"If it's smaller than the 80-column text screen on an Apple IIe it's too small".
Could somebody suggest a better way to talk to the next generation too young to remember the Apple II? I'm not sure the best way to describe the text size on an Apple II.
The context is something like talking about say the text in the Battletech game from Harebrained Schemes / Paradox Interactive, or how a web page is rendered on my phone and being annoyed at how small the "Mobile friendly" version appears, especiallyif I try to zoom and the site forces me to use horizontal scrolling.
We had Word Wrap on the Apple II+ with DogPaw and numerous other programs for god's sake, why can't a phone with a processor 40 years more advanced do simple word wrap?
[...] how a web page is rendered on my phone and being annoyed at how small the "Mobile friendly" version appears, especially if I try to zoom and the site forces me to use horizontal scrolling.
My main issue with "show them X", is that when I'm talking about these things in person, I don't have access to Macs or Apple II equipment. I've got to use my words.
One can break this discussion into two components:
Point size. Print out, or use a reference document and compare actual text size. Say 10pt on the ref document compared to the displayed text being larger or smaller.
The other component is DPI, dots per inch as was calculated above.
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