Author Topic: Remember when (Read 337 times)

eagl · « **on:** May 17, 2006, 06:31:07 AM »

Remember when most reasonably priced monitors only displayed resolutions over 640x480 using an interlaced mode? Man that sucked.

eagl · « **Reply #1 on:** May 17, 2006, 06:35:30 AM »

I mention it because I recently found an old monitor manual and tucked into the tech specs pages that list every single calibrated refresh rate, resolution, and video mode, I found a printout of an xconfig video/monitor configuration file that I made by hand. It took me a week of research and fiddling with display modes to make it work, but I didn't burn down the house and in the end I could run xwindows in 1024x768x16bpp and it was far crisper than any standard preset mode under windows.

Those were the days, and thank goodness I don't have to do that again

Saintaw · « **Reply #2 on:** May 17, 2006, 08:23:56 AM »

Interlaced monitors...WHY oh WHY would you want to bring that pain back?!!! I had almost forgotten about those.

Eagler · « **Reply #3 on:** May 17, 2006, 08:44:14 AM »

my 1st colored monitor was a NEC 15" that cost me almost $700 but SWOTL looked great on it

Nilsen · « **Reply #4 on:** May 17, 2006, 08:47:46 AM »

could you send me a copy of that manual eagl? ive lost mine and the colors on my monitor are getting abit off. maybe we have the same monitor

eagl · « **Reply #5 on:** May 17, 2006, 05:33:57 PM »

I'm pretty sure you don't have it Nilsen

It was a 14" packard bell purchased in 1994, long gone by now.

Besides I tossed it out after finding it because I was doing spring cleaning.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #6 on:** May 17, 2006, 05:42:27 PM »

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Originally posted by eagl
I'm pretty sure you don't have it Nilsen It was a 14" packard bell purchased in 1994, long gone by now.

Besides I tossed it out after finding it because I was doing spring cleaning.

LOL, you mean "once every 12 years Spring cleaning", right?

eagl · « **Reply #7 on:** May 18, 2006, 02:10:34 AM »

Of course I meant that diablo... Is there another kind?

Debonair · « **Reply #8 on:** May 18, 2006, 02:37:04 AM »

"i have a wang in my garage"

Hangtime · « **Reply #9 on:** May 18, 2006, 03:24:58 AM »

i remember when skates had keys.

it took 5 minutes for the TV to warm up. and it was B&W.

we played baseball without adults to tell us the rules.

a deck of playing and clothespins made my bike sound like a motorcycle.

i had a paper route, and a dog to help me deliver 'em after school.

saturday morning i had the TV to myself... and there were cartoons on.

*sigh*

Nilsen · « **Reply #10 on:** May 18, 2006, 03:46:04 AM »

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Originally posted by eagl
I'm pretty sure you don't have it Nilsen It was a 14" packard bell purchased in 1994, long gone by now.

Besides I tossed it out after finding it because I was doing spring cleaning.

oh.. mine is not that new. nevermind