Blast from the past

My monitor fried out on me a few minutes ago. I knew old betsy was on her last legs, but had procrastinated about buying a new one. With a sizzling sound, she went black.

I've hooked up a tiny 9" Black and white monitor that I had laying around, and for the next few days at least, I'll be forced to do my writing this way.

Anyway, what's funny is I kind of like it because it reminds me of my old brother word processor, with it's puny 7" green screen. I remember getting very absorbed in that little monitor.

I remember using TTY-style green screen terminals. The letters were huge.

And I also remember the first graphics tubes. They "drew" the image, monochrome, instead of dot-matrix refresh. These were made by CalComp and other now-defunct firms.

I remember those green monitors too.

Strange that you both have the same number of posts!!!

Must get out more...............

Ned

I knew old betsy was on her last legs, but had procrastinated about buying a new one.

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Assuming 'old betsy' was your monitor, why was she procrastinating about buying a new one? Wouldn't that be your job?

(Can anybody tell I'm doing rewrites at the moment )

Fortunately, my hulking CRT gave up the ghost around Christmas time. Hellooo, flat panel!

Called around to the electronics stores today and found a flat-panel LCD screen for $150 bucks. Of course it was the display model. It's also only 14 inches - no larger than my old CRT, but to my suprise, it has much better resolution.

On the CRT the best I could do was 800 X 600 and still have things be readable. With this monitor I'm at 1024 x 768 on the same size screen, but it's very easy on the eyes.

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For the record though, my writing session last night on the puny 9" BW monitor was one of the best I've had in a long time.