Who Still Uses Old Monitors?

skurrier asks: "Reading the comments for a totally unrelated article, an almost off topic post caught my eye: Someone said that they still had a Sun branded Sony GDM class monitor from way back, and (of course) it rocked then and still rocks. (Sorry, can't find the article, yet alone the comment) As I looked across my desk to that similar Sun branded Sony behemoth plugged into my PC I asked myself: How many people still use ancient monitors? And more importantly, what is the oldest monitor you still use regularly?"

Comments

Tandy

[eyempack]

Unforunatly i still have a Monochome monitor on my test bench. You never know when you need to run XGA Graphics

Re:Tandy

[Wog]

Hahaha

Commodore. Poke around. Ha ha.

sigh...

Re:Tandy

[Bradee-oh!]

Hahaha

Commodore. Poke around. Ha ha.

I just took a peek and I don't have any mod points to mod you funny.

...

*ducks*

Pff

[Anonymous Coward]

Young whippersnappers! I'm still using a dot-matrix printer for a display, and I like it that way!

Re:Pff

[Anonymous Coward]

Bah. Back in my day we just have rows of wires sticking out of the box. We didn't even have any bulbs for them, you'd have to work out what was high by putting it into your mouth and seeing if you got a shock...

10 year old 14" TVM

[Zork the Almighty]

I have and use a 14" TVM monitor from 1992. Does 640x480@70, 800x600@56, and 1024x768@43.5 *interlaced*. Attached to a 486 DX/50 w/ 8mb of ram running Gentoo linux. I need all the compiler flags I can get ! This is not a joke.

I have a 12" Wang

[vipw]

I really think the subject says it all.

Seriously though, it's real. It has a vga connector and can do 640x480 in 4 glorious shades of gray.

Re:I have a 12" Wang

[stanmann]

Do you have the 8" floppy that goes with it?

Re:IBM 3151

[Anonymous Coward]

The oldest monitor I currently have is in the closet. It's a 14" or 13" SVGA monitor that I've had since about 1998 - maybe earlier. It was probably used when I got it. At one point, it was left out in the drizzling rain for a couple hours. The next time I plugged it in to use, it shto out three foot flames from the top of the chassis (singing the whole top black) after about an hour of use. Now, it still catches fire routinely - so when you use it, you shouldn't wanter away and leave it unattended.

But my main monitor now is my 23" Apple Cinedisplay. Who needs anything else?! :)

Ancient?

[YankeeInExile]

I still have 3 GDM 1962s all hanging off of my SS1000, all in a row. The one on the left is for Opera and Firebird -- the one in the middle is where most of my xterms live, and the one on the right runs nothing but a maximized Emacs.

I surely am going to die from excessive X-Ray exposure.

Re:Bah (flashback)

[WuphonsReach]

Ugh... I just had flashbacks to my typing class in the late 80s (fully manual typewriters).

Bolding text was a real fun task... A{backspace}AL {backspace}LP {backspace}PO {backspace}O {space}.

Or counting out letters so that you could center text on the page properly.

My first printer was an electronic typewriter hooked up to a serial port on the computer. Boy did that prove difficult (spent a day at the local repair shop getting them to make it work). Not to mention trying to print a 20 page term-paper and making sure the form-fed paper stayed aligned (no sprockets).