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Hm. Got one like these gifted around 2003, or so. But in color. Got it to work with some adapter dongle with dip-switches, and a hand-crafted Xorg-modeline, att
by LargoLasskhyfv 3y ago
Hm. Got one like these gifted around 2003, or so. But in color. Got it to work with some adapter dongle with dip-switches, and a hand-crafted Xorg-modeline, attached to a Spea-Mercury (S3) in a PCI-slot in some OC'ed Athlon with 1.5GB (Virtual Channel)RAM.
Was more of a 'can-do!' gimmick though, because said Athlon already powered some later 3DFX-Voodoo3 attached to an 21" Hitachi Superscreensomething (Trinitron equivalent without the wires!) at 1600x1200@80Hz(which gave 2 full pages next to each other(at least in fullscreen without additional UI)), and some 17" attached to a midrange Matrox.
Mostly under NetBSD and KDE3.x, but Gentoo ran too.
- ssl-3 3y agoOh, man. I remember multi-monitor shenanigans just for the lulz. They were fun. (They were problematic in the CRT days because the magnetics would fight eachother sometimes, but even that was interesting to sort out.) And I remember the Radius "full page" monitor's introduction, and even saw some in the wild a couple of times. They always seemed bizarrely fit-for-purpose, and some part of me really wanted to score one for longer than I'd like to admit -- especially once PDFs became commonplace. But your own story just prompted me to hold an 8.5x11" piece of paper up to the 24" 16x9 display on my desk -- a display size that I've been using for well over a decade now. To my surprise, it can display more than two 8.5x11 full-page documents at one time. And somewhat to my disdain, I've realized that I have never once actually used it this way.
- LargoLasskhyfv 3y agoWell, if you'd tilt that thing into portrait-mode, you could comfortably read a full page of a classic daily newspaper, like NYT, WP, or the likes. But news are bad for you, so don't do... ;-)