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I still remember the the time upping my res from standard vga to 800x600 when i got my big 17 inch crt that would have a bearable (read: no headaches) refresh r

I still remember the the time upping my res from standard vga to 800x600 when i got my big 17 inch crt that would have a bearable (read: no headaches) refresh rate at that resolution. Suddenly Word did not have icons up until further than the top half of the screen and became usable for writing letters. After that, things _only_ _improved_. When reading posts like this, it reminds me of the times when I re-used an older-than win95 machine and was cursing about the clumsiness of the UI. People seem to recollect past times very differently.

Foobar8568 3y ago
I remember I could up my CRT to 1152xsomething resolution for years (or was it 1600x1200 on the 17"? And 1152 on 15"?) until I moved to a samsung 24 1920x1200 back in 2004?
- wtallis 3y ago
  I mostly used 1152x864 on the 17" CRT and 1600x1200 was only usable on the 21" CRT.
- nuancebydefault 3y ago
  Apologies, it could have been the upgrade from 14 to 15 inch, a really long time ago.
petercooper 3y ago
People seem to recollect past times very differently. I'm mostly struck by the folks who seem to recall GUIs working "instantly" in the 90s. I remember them being incredibly slow and laggy, not to mention how sluggish disk access was. There's much to celebrate about older software and I'm a huge fan of retro computing, but there seem to be a lot of "good old days" glasses being handed out by someone out there.
- anthk 3y ago
  Disk I/O was slow. But GUI's reacted on miliseconds.
  - nuancebydefault 3y ago
    Remember the days that a brand new computer was fast, but after half a year, after installing 10s of programs/drivers it became very slow. The good but at the same time annoying thing was you could hear the machine "thinking" when swapping data to a rattling hdd.
    - IIsi50MHz 3y ago
      Or if your computer, air conditioner, or something else was persistently louder than your disc drive, I/O read/write icons or physical LEDs were essential. (-:

Foobar8568 3y ago

I remember I could up my CRT to 1152xsomething resolution for years (or was it 1600x1200 on the 17"? And 1152 on 15"?) until I moved to a samsung 24 1920x1200 back in 2004?

wtallis 3y ago
I mostly used 1152x864 on the 17" CRT and 1600x1200 was only usable on the 21" CRT.
nuancebydefault 3y ago
Apologies, it could have been the upgrade from 14 to 15 inch, a really long time ago.

petercooper 3y ago

People seem to recollect past times very differently. I'm mostly struck by the folks who seem to recall GUIs working "instantly" in the 90s. I remember them being incredibly slow and laggy, not to mention how sluggish disk access was. There's much to celebrate about older software and I'm a huge fan of retro computing, but there seem to be a lot of "good old days" glasses being handed out by someone out there.

anthk 3y ago
Disk I/O was slow. But GUI's reacted on miliseconds.
- nuancebydefault 3y ago
  Remember the days that a brand new computer was fast, but after half a year, after installing 10s of programs/drivers it became very slow. The good but at the same time annoying thing was you could hear the machine "thinking" when swapping data to a rattling hdd.
  - IIsi50MHz 3y ago
    Or if your computer, air conditioner, or something else was persistently louder than your disc drive, I/O read/write icons or physical LEDs were essential. (-: