8 May
1997
8 May
'97
4:08 a.m.
On Thu, 8 May 1997, James Willing wrote:
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Ward Griffiths and/or Lisa Rogers
wrote:
Yah. Priced any 21" monitors lately? [I have _got_ to get me one. And a
smart video/keyboard/mouse switch to cut down at least a little bit on the
amount of desk surface I need. Not that this applies to any of the systems
that we care about in this mailing list, except for a switch system to
select which of half a dozen or more devices want channel 3 on the TV.]
--
Ward Griffiths
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within
the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Wolfe
On Wed, 7 May 1997, James Willing wrote:
True enough with regard to movie production budgets (and probably that
Apple traded gear for screen time/credits), but it was REAL hard to sell
a 'screen' that cost nearly as much as the computer in the 'real world'.
B^} On the other hand, Roy Scheider's character
(Dr. Haywood Floyd) is seen
using an Apple IIc with the optional (and very expensive at the time) LCD
display while sitting on the beach in the movie "2010: The Year We Make
Well,
something tells me that the cost of the LCD display, however high
it was, would have been peanuts in the prop and special effects budget.