Best LCDs for retrocomputing - Was: Re: New *square* 1:1 26.5" LCD monitor 1920x1920

[Jarratt RMA]

> 
>     On 16 May 2016 at 22:52 Adrian Graham <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>     On 16/05/2016 20:13, "Ian Finder" <ian.finder at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     > I dunno if it's relevant or not, but my go-to LCD for retro stuff is the
>     > Dell 2007FP-
>     > There was a panel lottery, some are TN, some IPS. Both are solid.
>     >
>     > They are 4:3, 1600x1200 native.
>     >
>     > They have DVI, VGA, Composite and S-Video inputs, and very stellar
>     > scalers.
> 
>     In fact there was one available for ukp35 so it's now mine. I remember
> these
>     monitors from a few years ago at a customer that specialised in video for
>     aeroplanes, I used one not quite daily but remember being irked at the
> time
>     that it was several button presses needed to get from VGA to DVI input,
>     hahaha.
> 


He had another one at that price (the last one apparently), so I have bagged
that one. I tried my Viewsonic, which does SoG, on my Rainbow at the weekend,
but that didn't work, perhaps this will. Even if it doesn't it will still be a
good second monitor for my everyday PC.

Regards

Rob