In 2001 I could read in one magazine in my employment, there is a new technology for one step in the fabrication of LC-displays making the production yield massive better than under the former kind of this operation, following the prices of LCD monitors will go down. Than, I remember the big run on the electro shop of one supermarket here when the first "very cheap" flatscreen monitors occured - about 1'000 $
(I don't know the label more, I think it was a 17 or 19"). I thought about to purchase it too, thanks to God I didn't
.
I have still my 1st 17" (Acer AL1715) but I don't use it more - its colours are not very good and also its startup time is too long. But I have now 5 other flat screen monitors in addition. For 1 of them I must pay about 5 (five
) symbolic $, the rest I got completely free, people wanted to throw them away. The last of them: In the last spring I got from somebody in my neighborhood a 20" Samsung 204B 1600 x 1200. But here I have allready a little problem. My very old PC (IBM 300PL, the 1st version) has only 4 MB video memory, following I can use no High-Color modus on 1600 x 1200, only the True-Color with 16 bit colour depth; the display area is imposant and only for looking I feel that 16 bit (65'536 colours anyway) enough but I need often to save a screenshot as a file and here is 24 bit necessary.
My CRT - an IBM 17" (I think one of the best or even the best CRT in this category) - I have still too. I like it, I gave a special granit look to it. By practical reasons I don't use it any more, indeed, but it has a big nostalgic worth for me.
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 01/09/2017 09:50PM by Mikk.