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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 04:57 AM EST |
I used a Radius monitor on my first ever PC at home. A
486DX66 in a multimedia case with built in speakers, volume
control and amplifier. The person that built it for me
supplied it with Windows 3.11. The rotation was triggered
by physical switches and not controlled by the OS at all.
Thus when I bought OS2 Warp, then Windows 95, NT4, 98,
Slackware and SuSE they all worked on the same
system/monitor combination.
The monitor lasted over 10 years until the youngest daughter
tried picking it up and moving it whilst switched on. It
wasn't the lightest of monitors. I deemed it beyond
economic repair due to a board dislodged and 'fried' against
the steel shielding in which it was encased.
It came with a Mac connector and required an adapter to
convert it to the PC's VGA.
It outlived the 486 several times, through iterations of
upgrades up to a K6-500. Definitely built to last!
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Authored by: artp on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 11:23 AM EST |
1986 is the right time frame. And the full page display is
right. Thanks for providing the name. Now my memory will
quit trying to be effective when it clearly can't be. ;-)
As someone pointed out, the change from portrait to
landscape was done with mechanical switches, not in
software. But the concept was proven AND implemented in
1986.
Software patents must die. They can take all the rest of the
patents with them, and let market forces drive innovation
instead for all I care.
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Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
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