Hello, stranger. I’m glad you decided to join me on this impromptu tour of a somewhat forgotten era of computing: the time when Screens Were Expensive – and so computers had no choice but to use smaller screens, small screens, and even ridiculously tiny screens. Shall we…?
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Replying to @mwichary @ciphergoth
Interesting thread. I wonder why more did not take the option used by the zx80 and successors of using standard TV as display.
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Replying to @richardclegg @ciphergoth
My take: The TVs were way too fuzzy, and also would appear unprofessional in the workplace? (Although I bet some of the naked CRTs used could have been similar to TV’s in quality.)
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But I don’t know for sure. It’s an interesting question! Maybe
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Replying to @mwichary @richardclegg and
I wrote a big piece on the evolution of computer displays about 10 years ago which sadly has broken images now. But there's still good info in there -- the answer is in the text for slides 8, 9, 10. #10 is the real answer but the other two are the preludehttps://www.pcworld.com/article/209224/historic-monitors-slideshow.html#slide8 …
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Replying to @benjedwards @mwichary and
I own the rights to all of my freelance work, so I'll probably re-publish some of these slideshows on VC&G soon
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Replying to @ShortFormErnie @mwichary and
There are so many good ones from that era -- it is going to take a lot of work. But it is really sad to see them broken these days
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Replying to @benjedwards @mwichary and
Totally hear you. The original version of ShortFormBlog is sitting in an archive on my machine because it would likely be very challenging to get it back to life.
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Replying to @ShortFormErnie @mwichary and
There, I re-published one of them. Only 65 more to go :)
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Where? :·)
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