- CP/M is by default a text-only affair. However, many of the machines that can run CP/M have hardware that would allow them to display graphics. As BBSing started to grow so too did the distribution of electronic images in formats such as: .RLE, .PCX, .GIF and .BMP. Therefore, programs were written on popular CP/M machines to display these pictures. Each program was hardware dependant because there were no standard operating system calls to interact with the graphics hardware. There was GSX-80, but you still needed a hardware dependant screen driver for each machine and not that many machines had them, plus it was pretty slow. There were also programs that printed the image to a printer rather than display on screen. This was particularly useful for those machines that didn’t have sufficient graphical hardware or a version couldn’t be found or adapted for them.
- Seattle Neighborhoods: Lakewood — Thumbnail History (historylink.org)
The Lakewood neighborhood along southeast Seattle’s Lake Washington shoreline is located east of Genesee Park and northwest of Seward Park (it is often considered part of the Seward Park neighborhood). The area was originally a peninsula formed by a long inlet called Wetmore Slough – the present location of Genesee Park – that extended more than one-half mile south from the lakeshore and turned west toward Columbia City.