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At first I thought the original Macintosh screen was too small to use for meaningful work, until I fired up MS Word 5 and started writing. The display fits half
by drewzero1 4y ago
At first I thought the original Macintosh screen was too small to use for meaningful work, until I fired up MS Word 5 and started writing. The display fits half a page at nearly 100% scale which made it perfect to just write, and the printed page would look pretty much exactly as it did on the screen.
- protomyth 4y agoI did wish Apple had released a Mac in the original form factor with an 15" screen (9" width by 12" height). It would have been fun to have a machine that could show a whole page.
- nonesuchluck 4y agoThey did just that in 1989, with the Macintosh Portrait Display [1]. It was designed to fit snugly on the Mac II. Like other CRTs with fixed resolution and refresh rate, the phosphor persistence was perfectly tuned for comfortable, fatigue-free document viewing. Curiously, tho, I don't think it was a perfect 72dpi like the 9" CRT in compact Macs, so it's not precisely scaled with printed output. [1] https://lowendmac.com/1989/macintosh-portrait-display/ https://lowendmac.com/1989/macintosh-portrait-display/