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Smith, Alvy Ray (2021). A Biography of the Pixel. Cambridge: MIT Press. p. 363. ISBN9780262365215. Retrieved 1 October 2022. In this book, Smith recalls that his first framebuffer at the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab cost $80,000 in the mid-1970s. It could store a 512 x 512 array of pixels at 256 colors per pixel (that is, 8-bit color depth). Alexander Schure soon bought five more framebuffers for the Lab for $60,000 each. The Lab quickly combined its six framebuffers together, in two groups of three each, to create the first two true 24-bit RGB color framebuffers. Thus, the first had cost $200,000 and the second had cost $180,000; as Smith points out, adjusting for inflation, these numbers add up to roughly $1.7 million in 2021 dollars, which explains why the Lab's researchers were "thrilled" with Schure's generosity.
