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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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