20 Mar
2010
20 Mar
'10
9:34 p.m.
On Mar 20, 2010, at 11:38 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
I have two white-phosphor VGA monitors, one 9" and one 15". I
will never let them out of my sight for exactly this reason. :)
Honestly, while I can see the argument about color CRTs, I've never
had a problem with the crispness of my LCD displays (at least when
driven using a digital signal; analog VGA is another story).
They're easily as crisp as the monochrome high-res CRT displays I
have (PERQ, Sun, and Symbolics). Plus the refresh rate is better on
my eyes, and they don't take up half my desk ;).
I find the LCDs to be considerably crisper than the color CRTs and
a joy to look at, but to my eye, a good monochrome CRT (like the
early Sun monitors as used on the 3/50, 3/60, and similar machines)
is even crisper when properly adjusted. I think that's probably a
per-eye thing.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
(What I want
to solve #2 would be a super-high DPI screen... I
have a
1920x1200 display, but it's still only 96 dpi. Something 200dpi or
higher would be very nice (for things other than PDFs, too...)
There was something to be said for the crispness of a good high-
res B&W monitor
where the resolution was limited more by the video bandwidth,
rather than the
physical tri-color-grid of colour monitors.
When everything started going colour in the early 90's it
occurred to me to
hold onto a couple of larger B&W monitors as they went out of
style, for
working on text and schematics and such, but I never did get any.