17 Jul
2008
17 Jul
'08
9:10 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
But that little monitor!
It is small, isn't it? But it's very sharp, even on 80x24 text, so it's
easy to read if you sit about 6" away from the screen. Makes me want to get
a Fresnel lens on a swing arm, a la Brazil :-)
Bob
11:32 a.m.
Think he means the Terry Gilliam movie -- great teletypes in that one too.
"We're all in this together!"
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It is small,
isn't it? But it's very sharp, even on 80x24 text, so it's
easy to read if you sit about 6" away from the screen. Makes me want to get
a Fresnel lens on a swing arm, a la Brazil :-)
What my country has to do with fresnels and swing arms? ;oD
2:58 p.m.
gil smith
Think he means the Terry Gilliam movie
Indeed -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(movie)
and the movie is named for the theme song, not the country.
Bob
20 Jul
20 Jul
11:13 a.m.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(movie)
and the movie is named for the theme song, not the country.
But it looks just like Brazil :o)
1:48 a.m.
On Thursday 17 July 2008 09:10, Bob Armstrong wrote:
Heh.
I remember being able to read text on the O-1 in 104-column mode after I'd
installed a screen-pac upgrade. I doubt I could do it these days, though.
Yes, those monitors were *very* sharp! :-)
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Chuck Guzis
wrote:
But that little monitor!
It is small, isn't it? But it's very sharp, even on 80x24 text, so it's
easy to read if you sit about 6" away from the screen. Makes me want to
get a Fresnel lens on a swing arm, a la Brazil :-)
Bob 
2:31 a.m.
On 20 Jul 2008 at 1:48, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I remember being able to read text on the O-1 in
104-column mode after I'd
installed a screen-pac upgrade. I doubt I could do it these days, though.
Yes, those monitors were *very* sharp! :-)
Funny. I got frustrated trying to read 80x24 text on a 9" monitor
and went to a 12" (An old Four-Phase job) when I saw the O1
prototype. I turned to Richard Frank and told him that it'd never
sell because of the tiny screen.
Shows what I know. Heck, I can barely read a 17" screen nowadays...
Cheers,
Chuck
2:40 a.m.
On Sunday 20 July 2008 02:31, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 20 Jul 2008 at 1:48, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
When we were first looking to acquire our own personal machine (early 1980s
sometime?) there weren't a whole lot of choices out there. I remember
looking at the TI 99/4A, the O-1, and a few other things, and although I
wanted an 80-column screen and at _two_ floppy drives (which ruled out the TI
box once you added in the required expansion box and such) I couldn't get
into the idea of having to scroll horizontally to see those 80 columns.
And yes, that monitor was too darn small! :-)
However in 1985 I ended up opening my repair business in the same building
where the Osborne dealer was, got involved with the LUG, and started seeing
a bunch of those anyhow. And when a store employee offered me his Executive
(along with an Oki 92 printer, and nice carrying cases for both) I took him
up on it.
I was okay with that monitor for a good long time, and used that machine well
after lots of other folks had moved on from their c64s and O-1s to peecee
hardware, though eventually I ended up going there myself. Dunno how
readable I'd find it these days, and it's been a really long time since I
fired it up. I should probably do something about that one of these days, I
guess.
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
-
Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
I remember being able to read text on the O-1 in
104-column mode after
I'd installed a screen-pac upgrade. I doubt I could do it these days,
though.
Yes, those monitors were *very* sharp! :-)
Funny. I got frustrated trying to read 80x24 text on a 9" monitor
and went to a 12" (An old Four-Phase job) when I saw the O1
prototype. I turned to Richard Frank and told him that it'd never
sell because of the tiny screen.
Shows what I know. Heck, I can barely read a 17" screen nowadays...
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