Monitors

[storuggla]

Now now, I know what you're thinking - but I'm not advocating renaming the SDB's here. I'm talking computer screens.

You see, for some reason a fly 3D-thing with great graphics doesn't spell future to me. When I think of the words "future" and "computer screen" I think green on black letters. Thus that's the state of computers in MTU, sort of the ones used in the movie Alien. Retro is the future? Am I alone in this deviation?

 

[far-trader]

I actually do miss my old first computer monitor at times. All 12 inches diagonal of it's glorius green and black monochrome clarity. Something about it made it easy on the eyes. I had to wait for lcd screens to find an equal for long duration viewing experience.

Hmmm, there used to be a utility to make your PC emulate the old monochrome monitors, I may have to try to hunt it up

 

[RainOfSteel]

Originally posted by far-trader:
I actually do miss my old first computer monitor at times. All 12 inches diagonal of it's glorius green and black monochrome clarity.

Ah yee of giant luxurious screen size possession.

I remember starting out with my nine inch diagonal monitor of black and white monochrome nature.

I tell you, the scrolling I had to do with that thing . . .

 

[Malenfant]

While green on black monitors do have a certain nostalgia value, I vastly prefer my nice big 32-bit colour monitor...

 

[mike wightman]

Originally posted by Owlmonster:
You see, for some reason a fly 3D-thing with great graphics doesn't spell future to me. When I think of the words "future" and "computer screen" I think green on black letters. Thus that's the state of computers in MTU, sort of the ones used in the movie Alien. Retro is the future? Am I alone in this deviation?

Probably

I doubt if Doom3 would look good on a green screen...

... and then there's the matter of those "personal assistant" holograms...

 

[Fritz_Brown]

MY first computer had a 1-line LED readout, and a cash register tape printer! (This was a Rockwell kit, with a hand-fashioned case!)

 

[Andrew Boulton]

My first few machines used my TV as a monitor. I think I prefer the 21.3" TFT I'm using now...

 

[parmasson]

I must admit that compared to Windows that old DOS prompt made me feel like I was more in control. I had an old green screen attached to my tricked out IBM 286 up till 1999. It had a thirty megabyte hard drive, floppy drive (3.5"), and a full MEGABITE on top of the base 640k. To complete the package was the "grinder" my dot matrix printer. It took me about a thirty seconds to boot up and I didn't even know what a computer "crash" was. For four years I wrote papers and assignments without a hitch.
I still have the machine in the garage against my wife's wishes.

 

[Jame]

This one prefers color screens. Though if someone else wants to imagine a tl-whatever screen as being something else, I see no reason to intrude. Unless they're trying to force it on me...

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Vilani probably still use green screens. "If it was good enough for great-great-great-grandfather Eneri..."

 

[Keklas Rekobah]

My IBM-PC "Portable" came with a 5" diagonal amber-on-black CRT. Actually, the phophors are white, and the CRT has an amber filter on the faceplate.

The Portable is the one that looks like an old Singer sewing machine carrying case. I still use mine with an IEEE-488 adapter card for controlling various functions of my amateur radio station (aiming and tuning antennas, packet e-grams, and other notary sojac).

CPU: 8088 / 8087
CLK: 4.77MHz
MEM: 640K
HDD: 40M (MFM)
O/S: DOS 6.20
O/P: Color Graphics Adapter in BW80 mode.

Definately the pinnacle of early TL7 PC technology, and it still works!

-KR-

 

[far-trader]

Originally posted by RainOfSteel:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by far-trader:
I actually do miss my old first computer monitor at times. All 12 inches diagonal of it's glorius green and black monochrome clarity.

Ah yee of giant luxurious screen size possession.

I remember starting out with my nine inch diagonal monitor of black and white monochrome nature.

I tell you, the scrolling I had to do with that thing . . . </font>[/QUOTE]Would that have been the cool matching screen for the Apple IIc or perhaps the first Mac? I can imagine the scrolling and don't envy you. My green screen was with the Apple IIc when it first came out ($2000 bucks canadian, yikes, but reasonable at the time). The store talked me out of the 9", for the same price I got a bigger screen. I didn't want to go to something smaller after my first computer (a Timex Sinclair) on an old 12" B&W portable TV. Hence the green screen was my first "monitor" since the TV was well, a TV

 

[PinkSplice]

My monitor for some time (on both my Radio Shack and Commodore boxes) was a black and white Panasonic 12" TV. Great little TV.

The first (dedicated) color monitor I had was a Commodore 15". Made a great monitor for my VCR as well.

 

[The Hinterworlds Rambler]

Me ViC-20 Powerhouse was hooked up to the finest walnut-grained behemoth magnavox television the size of the Bismarck. This fearsome device followed me for many years, ending its life as the worlds nastiest bass guitar amp. It's last song was a Cramps song. It was destroyed in a mysterious bonfire along with a olive drab couch lovingly knicknamed "The Sarge"

Unexpectedly, PC Junior snuck up on ol' ViC, making it and it's cream-colored plastic shell and brown keys and tape drive memory storage look like computers cro-magnons had. I mean, Cmon... this had "floppy disks"! The very name shouted merriment and whimsy!

PC Junior slowly evolved itself into the computer that runs my life today, converting raw credits into components for itself... I swear its the same comp.

 

[far-trader]

Ah the venerable ViC-20s, great little machines. And yours with it's stylish "monitor" approaches the classic stats of a Model/1bis

 

[Andrew Boulton]

http://www.cix.co.uk/~fubar/computers.htm

Needs updating - I've now got a 3.4GHz P4.