On Jul 13, 2012, at 1:38 PM, John Francis wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 09:00:13AM -0500, Charles Robinson wrote: >> On Jul 12, 2012, at 19:32, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >>> I ordered an NEC EA232WMI-BK MultiSync 23" IPS panel from Comp USA. PCMag >>> gave it a good review and the price was only $264.99. >> >> I still remember the first time 17" CRTs dropped below $1,000. >> >> I don't miss those days. >> >> -Charles > > I remember paying an extra $100 so the (13") monitor on my first > Windows box had a close enough dot pitch that it could actually > display VGA-resolution imagis without too much pixel blurring. > Later on, when I got a better graphics card, I could even set it > to display at an amazing 800 x 600 resolution (although that had > to drop down to a slower-than-60fps refresh rate, so it flickered). >
My first monitor was the Apple 9-inch monochrome monitor. In 1985 I replaced it with the Apple ColorMonitor //c, which supported the Apple Double Hi-Res standard of 560 x 192. My kids were thrilled to have a color monitor, and I bought Dazzle Draw software, so they could paint with pixels. Paul > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
