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That Mac Word screenshot gives me claustrophobic flashbacks to trying to work on those tiny screens in middle school computer lab, writing science fair papers.
by bluedino 3y ago
That Mac Word screenshot gives me claustrophobic flashbacks to trying to work on those tiny screens in middle school computer lab, writing science fair papers.
- cynicalsecurity 3y agoIt wasn't so bad. It's better now, but it was fine back then.
- whoopdedo 3y agoI consider it more of not knowing how much better we could have had it. Small monitors were "normal." But I imagine people who got to work with the Portrait Display[1] (an impressive 640x870 resolution!) felt then as we do now when they had to switch back to the internal screen. [1] https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Apple_Macintosh_Portrait_Display https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Apple_Macintosh_Portrait_Displa...
- retrac 3y agoHeh, that screenshot is relatively high-resolution for the time in question, too. 800x600 maybe? The compact Macs were 512x342: https://www.betalogue.com/images/uploads/microsoft/pce-mac-word51.png https://www.betalogue.com/images/uploads/microsoft/pce-mac-w... (The toolbars, rulers, etc., could be hidden in the settings.)