One of my first large purchases of computer hardware was a Sony GDM-17SE1 monitor. This was in 1994, when a 17" display was unusual, and the display went along

One of my first large purchases of computer hardware was a Sony GDM-17SE1 monitor. This was in 1994, when a 17" display was unusual, and the display went along with an 8MB 486DX/33 machine. The display was expensive at the time ($2,300 in 2017 dollars), but lasted me a good 6 or 7 years. By the time 2000 rolled around, I was doing most of my computing on employer-owned machines and laptops, so my need for a desktop display was minimal. (That didn't stop me, though, from a briefly owned 19" Dell rebrand of a Trinitron display.) Display quality on those CRTs was excellent, although the thin horizontal wires were indeed noticeable if you looked.