8-bit PC Hercules Graphics Card from 1984 gets revisited — Hercules GPU from the IBM era shaped the modern graphics we know today

If you’ve been around long enough to remember a time before modern-day GPUs were a thing, the name “Hercules Graphics Card” (HGCC might ring a bell. It quietly revolutionized PC graphics back in the early 80s for businesses, ushering in a new era of innovation in display hardware; you could say, Hercules walked so Nvidia and ATI could run. Even though it looks primitive by today’s standards, it’s always interesting to look back at how impactful old technology was when even the concept of a GPU was…