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Title: Remember when
Post by: 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.

Title: Remember when
Post by: eagl 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 :)

Title: Remember when
Post by: Saintaw 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.

Title: Remember when
Post by: Eagler 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 :)

Title: Remember when
Post by: Nilsen 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

Title: Remember when
Post by: eagl 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.

Title: Remember when
Post by: DiabloTX 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?

Title: Remember when
Post by: eagl on May 18, 2006, 02:10:34 AM

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

Title: Remember when
Post by: Debonair on May 18, 2006, 02:37:04 AM

"i have a wang in my garage"

Title: Remember when
Post by: Hangtime 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*

Title: Remember when
Post by: Nilsen 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