Screen Art
The HP 9845 not only promoted CRT displays as standard interactive visualization device for desktop computers, it also was capable of (compared to other systems of the time) tremendous computer graphics.
The HP 9845C was the very first color computer developed by Hewlett Packard and extended the visualization possibilities even further. It offered hardware accelerated vector drawing and polygon fill features, and even supported fast matrix operations for rendering 3D models. HP spent lots of design efforts in building high-quality, ergonomic display systems. Therefore, although mainly targeted to scientific and engineering applications, the 9845C was a multi-purpose graphics wonder.
This section shows a couple of examples, which shall give an idea, what the HP 9845 could do, and how it was used.
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The War Games Movie
The best-known application of an HP 9845C outside the scientific and engineering scene probably was John Badhams "War Games" from 1983.
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HP 9845C Demo
With the introduction of its first color computer ever, Hewlett Packard created this (at the time) mindblowing demo demonstrating the astonishing capabilities of this state-of-the-art system.
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