Comment by marcus0x62
2 years ago
I had a 21” Viewsonic in the late 90s, with an enormous (for the time) 1600x1200 resolution. It weighed around 60 pounds. My desk sagged in the middle from the weight of the monitor.
2 years ago
I had a 21” Viewsonic in the late 90s, with an enormous (for the time) 1600x1200 resolution. It weighed around 60 pounds. My desk sagged in the middle from the weight of the monitor.
I had something similar, though it was maybe a Trinitron? The glass was also flat. It was a long, long time until it felt worth it to “upgrade” to an LCD screen.
I threw out a 17" Trinitron last year. It had outlived all of the flatscreens bought to replace it and was still working, but after ~23 years the plastic casing was dangerously brittle. It left a trail of little bits of broken plastic all the way to the dumpster.
The trinitrons were great, but way beyond my budget at the time. I seem to remember at work we had a nice Trinitron with a flat screen that had 13w3 and vga inputs. IIRC, it was bought as a "budget" monitor for a Sun workstation, but was still like twice as much as my Viewsonic.
Yup, I had that one too.