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Apr. 9th, 2007 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogWhile I was working on getting my laptop to talk to my mom's computer so I could copy Dragon Naturally Speaking over to her hard drive for her, Andrea came back from buying dog food and said "Hey Chris, there's a monitor on the curb out there!"
"Is it a big one?"
"Pretty big; at least as big as this one." She pointed to my mom's 19" work surplus Dell that I gave her a few months ago.
So I ran out to investigate. It was about a block south, so I jogged ahead to investigate and spare Andrea the time of walking down if it wasn't worth it.
It turned out to be pretty big indeed, and had component video jacks as well as VGA. It also had just a db15 jack instead of an integral VGA cable. This was telling me that this was a fairly high end monitor. So I picked it up and carried it back with me. Oof! It was heavy! I figured that someone with enough bucks to buy a big high end CAD monitor like that probably had enough bucks to replace it with a big flat panel; I estimated a 50/50 chance at this thing working just fine. Turns out I was in luck.
I brought it home after dinner, lugged it upstairs, and looked at the specs. It's a 21" PanaSync Pro P110. Intended as a CAD/CAM monitor, it has a maximum resolution of 1800x1440 at 71Hz and the pre-release review I looked at lists a MSRP of $1200 in 1998. I washed it off, Windexed the screen, and powered it on. There was no loud hum as I'm used to in big CRTs; just a quiet crackle as the screen lit up and then the blue rectangle of a setup menu window. Sweet!
I got it hooked up to my laptop and tried it out; it looks beautiful. I can't find a single thing wrong with it. I'm going to set it up as the secondary monitor on my desktop next to my 17" flatscreen. That should be plenty of room for a few VNC sessions and chat windows.
Thanks sweetie! You rock!
"Is it a big one?"
"Pretty big; at least as big as this one." She pointed to my mom's 19" work surplus Dell that I gave her a few months ago.
So I ran out to investigate. It was about a block south, so I jogged ahead to investigate and spare Andrea the time of walking down if it wasn't worth it.
It turned out to be pretty big indeed, and had component video jacks as well as VGA. It also had just a db15 jack instead of an integral VGA cable. This was telling me that this was a fairly high end monitor. So I picked it up and carried it back with me. Oof! It was heavy! I figured that someone with enough bucks to buy a big high end CAD monitor like that probably had enough bucks to replace it with a big flat panel; I estimated a 50/50 chance at this thing working just fine. Turns out I was in luck.
I brought it home after dinner, lugged it upstairs, and looked at the specs. It's a 21" PanaSync Pro P110. Intended as a CAD/CAM monitor, it has a maximum resolution of 1800x1440 at 71Hz and the pre-release review I looked at lists a MSRP of $1200 in 1998. I washed it off, Windexed the screen, and powered it on. There was no loud hum as I'm used to in big CRTs; just a quiet crackle as the screen lit up and then the blue rectangle of a setup menu window. Sweet!
I got it hooked up to my laptop and tried it out; it looks beautiful. I can't find a single thing wrong with it. I'm going to set it up as the secondary monitor on my desktop next to my 17" flatscreen. That should be plenty of room for a few VNC sessions and chat windows.
Thanks sweetie! You rock!
