Who Still Uses Old Monitors?

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Posted by Cliff on Wednesday January 14, 2004 @10:52PM from the old-doesn't-mean-useless dept.

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?"

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Pff by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-14 23:12 · Score: 5, Funny

Young whippersnappers! I'm still using a dot-matrix printer for a display, and I like it that way!
1. Re:Pff by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-14 23:31 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  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 by Zork+the+Almighty · 2004-01-14 23:18 · Score: 4, Funny

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.

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I have a 12" Wang by vipw · 2004-01-14 23:40 · Score: 5, Funny

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:Tandy by Wog · 2004-01-15 04:04 · Score: 5, Funny

Hahaha

Commodore. Poke around. Ha ha.

sigh...
Re:Tandy by Bradee-oh! · 2004-01-15 05:15 · Score: 4, Funny

Hahaha

Commodore. Poke around. Ha ha.

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

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*ducks*

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