Anyone still using?

[Win2000Fan]

Anyone out there still using an old CRT, or cathode ray tube, monitor? For you younger people those are the old big, heavy and deep, vacuum tube monitors we older adults used in the Windows 3.1 and 98 days. And anyone still using a three and a half inch floppy? Last is there a chance someone might still be using the old school modems? Those are the only old school computer things people might still be using I can think of. Just for fun.

[Illusion of Progress]

The CNR slot was the short Brown one that was usually "offset" relative to a PCI slot a bit towards the IO slot, right? If so, I think I remember seeing that, though rarely, on some Pentium III/4 era boards, but then no later.

I don't believe I ever heard of of the AMR slot.

[Ice Robertson]

They were redundant when they came out, I would like to know what happened to pci-x

[Illusion of Progress]

PCI-X was the longer, 64-bit ones, I think? I think that mostly a server thing to begin with. Consumer PCs seldom had it to begin with. As for what happened to it, if it's not still around, I would imagine it was mostly replaced when PCI Express came about, just like normal PCI was.

[Ice Robertson]

Yeah i just read about it in wiki.

I was one of those guys who eventually brought 19 inch CRT monitors, The bad thing was they were heavy and took too much space up.

Tbh having a 17 or even 15 inch wasn't necessary bad if they had a good picture, Back then though i thought the bigger the better, like buying full tower cases.

[Illusion of Progress]

The larger ones were nicer though. The issue with the smaller ones wasn't necessarily lack of quality but more the resolution. I had a 15" one first, then a 21" one. The extra size after upgrading was very welcome.

While the former one could do up to 1600 x 1200, at that point the refresh rate couldn't be set high enough and things started looking too small at the desktop. It was more comfortable around 1024 x 768 or maybe 1152 x 864 or so.

The latter could do up to 2048 x 1536, but likewise was refresh rate limited and too small for desktop use there, but it looked nice around resolutions like 1280 x 960, 1400 x 1050, or even 1600 x 1200. The extra desktop estate was nice.

[Obsessive Power]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από 10Transistor:

Awesome I am invyious, a Commodore 64. I wonder how many people know the 64 in Commodore 64 does not mean bits or 64 bits like a CPU. It in fact means 64 kilobytes of system memory not megabytes or gigabytes but kilobytes.

Ah 64k RAM, them where the days. My first ever computer was a C64. Well, it wasn't all mine, I shared it with my older brother until I had my own. He had the original 'Bread bin' model, I had the C64c.

[N0REGARD4LIFE]

I use an old CRT to play the old
Madden games on PS2 lol.

[Hapxier]

I've still got an old Commodore 128, with CRT monitor, 5 1/4 floppy drive, and a dot matrix printer affectionately nicknamed "Ol' Screamer." I used the monitor so much its power switch broke, and I had to bore a hole in the case to install a new one that awkwardly sticks out the side. Ah, thinking about it takes me back to the smell of ozone and the high-pitched whine it made while working. Good memories, but I'm quite glad I'm not trying to boot up a modern game using floppies! Three disks was pushing it back then, I don't even want to guess how many it'd take for something modern.

[Annihilator]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από ✨Saint✨:

I use one for my Commodore 64.

:saint:

I not have crt but comoddore 64 yes but the mouse is broken :)

Also i got a computer with windows 95 with matrox but i have only a gpu matrox actually on garage ;)