Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game changer than you expected?

Re:Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game chang... by bsenftner on Sunday February 06, 2022 @09:50AM (#30232966)

I have four 4K screens, and it is heaven. I got spoiled early in my career by a Unix system that had a greyscale newspaper layout monitor in the early 90's. That monitor could crispy display an unfolded two page newspaper layout with space on the left and right for tool/editing interfaces. For a while, 4K monitors were landing right near US $300, so I got 4 over a period of months. Simply being able to array references around my work, with space to spare for communication and music interfaces. It is lovely to hit stride and before I know it the day is over, and a ton of work accomplished.

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Re:Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game chang... by miller_joe on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:22PM (#30234580)

Do you recall the name of that monitor from the 90s? Sounds interesting

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Re:Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game chang... by bsenftner on Sunday February 06, 2022 @05:50PM (#30237875)

It was a Sony News Workstation, with an IBM branded grey scale monitor displaying 16 grey levels at 150 pixels an inch. Total display was about 1900x3600, a bit larger than an opened two-page newspaper spread. It was a CRT monitor, requiring two feet behind the screen for the back of the monitor and quite thick cabling. It was a Unix workstation, used to author R&D CD ROMs, back when the CD ROM itself was R&D.

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Re:Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game chang... by pySSK on Sunday February 06, 2022 @01:59PM (#30235710)

Just in case you didn’t know, you can rotate any monitor 90 degrees and get the same layout.

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