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I was in college in the mid-90's, and scrimped and saved at one point to buy myself a 17" monitor [1]. (A big deal at a time when 14" and 15" were typical.) I

I was in college in the mid-90's, and scrimped and saved at one point to buy myself a 17" monitor [1]. (A big deal at a time when 14" and 15" were typical.) I remember being pretty impressed that that the cable connected to the monitor with five BNC connectors rather than the usual VGA port or termination inside the monitor case. (Of course I doubt it did me any good at all b/c I just connected it to an ordinary VGA port on the other end.) 1] A Sony GDM-17SE1 if anybody remembers those. (Couldn't quite swing the slightly nicer Nanao FlexScan that could do native 1600x1200.... but the Sony was an excellent display anyway.)

dylan604 8y ago
Boy do I remember these. Analog component inputs. Essentially RGB+Hsync+Vsync. Or more correctly, YPbPr,H,V if I got the abbreviations correct. I used to crimp/solder BNCs to cables, and I was so happy when we could switch to SDI instead of analog video cables. Each cable for the analog component video cables had to be the same length (within a very small tolerance) or the signals would be out of sync causing the color to not be reproduced correctly. Some devices had timing that you could adjust to compensate, but cable length was important. If you screwed up one of the cables and needed to cut off a bit to redo the end, you had to do the same "correction" to all of the other cables to match.
nonamenoslogan 8y ago
Oh how I miss the Trinitron. I too had one early on, a 19" model circa 1999/2000ish. It was stellar--mine had the 5 BNC and VGA input, of course I used the VGA too :D
- mschaef 8y ago
  > I too had one early on, a 19" I bought my 17 in around 94-95 and used it for at least five or six years. It started out attached to a 486/33 and wound up attached to a P5/100 and then a custom K6/233 I bought when I got my first job, had for about a month, and then sold to buy a Thinkpad 560. (The same job that paid for the fancy desktop also kept me away from it, so I never really used it.) It was probably around the same time you had yours, but I briefly did buy another desktop machine with a Dell branded 19" Trinitron. It was also very nice, but weighed a ton. (It was also the last CRT I bought.... everything since has been various LCDs, and aside from some crappy TN laptop displays, it's generally been a big improvement.) Edit: I should add about these Trinitron displays... there are people that complained about the stabilization wires on Trinitron CRT's. I was able to see them, but they weren't an issue and the rest of the display quality was so good it didn't matter anyway. (At least to me.)

dylan604 8y ago

Boy do I remember these. Analog component inputs. Essentially RGB+Hsync+Vsync. Or more correctly, YPbPr,H,V if I got the abbreviations correct. I used to crimp/solder BNCs to cables, and I was so happy when we could switch to SDI instead of analog video cables. Each cable for the analog component video cables had to be the same length (within a very small tolerance) or the signals would be out of sync causing the color to not be reproduced correctly. Some devices had timing that you could adjust to compensate, but cable length was important. If you screwed up one of the cables and needed to cut off a bit to redo the end, you had to do the same "correction" to all of the other cables to match.

nonamenoslogan 8y ago

Oh how I miss the Trinitron. I too had one early on, a 19" model circa 1999/2000ish. It was stellar--mine had the 5 BNC and VGA input, of course I used the VGA too :D

mschaef 8y ago
> I too had one early on, a 19" I bought my 17 in around 94-95 and used it for at least five or six years. It started out attached to a 486/33 and wound up attached to a P5/100 and then a custom K6/233 I bought when I got my first job, had for about a month, and then sold to buy a Thinkpad 560. (The same job that paid for the fancy desktop also kept me away from it, so I never really used it.) It was probably around the same time you had yours, but I briefly did buy another desktop machine with a Dell branded 19" Trinitron. It was also very nice, but weighed a ton. (It was also the last CRT I bought.... everything since has been various LCDs, and aside from some crappy TN laptop displays, it's generally been a big improvement.) Edit: I should add about these Trinitron displays... there are people that complained about the stabilization wires on Trinitron CRT's. I was able to see them, but they weren't an issue and the rest of the display quality was so good it didn't matter anyway. (At least to me.)