this monitor is old enough to drink
Aug. 25th, 2018 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cmdr_zoomGreetings from Arstotzka!
Am typing/viewing this entry on 20+ year old CRT, with very obvious curvature, in stunning 1024 x 768.
Yesterday morning, before work, widescreen LCD woke up just long enough to show desktop and let me put fingers to keys before going black. Investigation showed fault was not with vidcard - LED showed good signal - but no amount of rest or cable wiggling could produce display.
So, 8-year-old LCD sadly put aside for later disposal, and monitor from Pentium 100MHz Win98 retro-gaming machine (built by old friend, also sadly no longer with us) pressed into service for weekend. On Sunday, new widescreen arrives from Amazon... along with 3-pack of new microcassettes for 30-year-old answering machine. Still works, but bits literally falling off original tape.
Also this past week, am finally getting hand computer - Motorola e5 plus. (Some say is "mobile phone" - pah! Has no dial, no bell. Is not telephone, is other future thing.) Striding boldly into new century!
Am typing/viewing this entry on 20+ year old CRT, with very obvious curvature, in stunning 1024 x 768.
Yesterday morning, before work, widescreen LCD woke up just long enough to show desktop and let me put fingers to keys before going black. Investigation showed fault was not with vidcard - LED showed good signal - but no amount of rest or cable wiggling could produce display.
So, 8-year-old LCD sadly put aside for later disposal, and monitor from Pentium 100MHz Win98 retro-gaming machine (built by old friend, also sadly no longer with us) pressed into service for weekend. On Sunday, new widescreen arrives from Amazon... along with 3-pack of new microcassettes for 30-year-old answering machine. Still works, but bits literally falling off original tape.
Also this past week, am finally getting hand computer - Motorola e5 plus. (Some say is "mobile phone" - pah! Has no dial, no bell. Is not telephone, is other future thing.) Striding boldly into new century!
