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Comment by guenthert

2 days ago

Dunno. I worked (fortunately only) very briefly on one (Octane I _think_). Still remember the trashcan were flames shot out, when one was dragging a file on it. Cute the first three times. Other than that, I remember the bad flicker (in Europe 50Hz only!) of the (large, then) colour monitor and the noise. Oh, the noise. Fellow users tried to mitigate it by hiding it behind the door to the server room to little effect. I'm sure it's performance as graphics workstation were outstanding (which I had no use for then), but the ergonomics were just awful.

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dijit  2 days ago

what do you mean “60Hz only”, I don’t recall touching anything before 2012 that had higher refresh rates in an office.

Heck, even now most business equipment (even the art calibrated ones) are 60Hz…

  • trinix912  2 days ago

    Have you used CRT monitors? Some of those could do over 120 Hz. Anything below 85 Hz was painful to look at for a longer period of time for most people.