Gabu
Star Mario
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I don't think I've ever even heard of that system until now.
Man, it must've sucked so hard people just decided never to speak of it.
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Sorry to hear that.
I don't think I could ever go back to one of those huge PC monitors ever again.
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Taryn
Passed away.
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Ugh, CRTs.
Fitting CRTs on small desks.
Lugging CRTs around, watching out for the cables.
I remember a DOS program called DOS Shell, which was kinda like an ugly version of Windows 3.1's File Manager. ____________________ TKB Super Mario Bros. |
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Danika
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I still have a CRT for my old Windows 98 machine, and (of course) the one built into my old Mac...
Maybe I'll have to get a decent LCD monitor to replace that CRT, but I might have trouble locating one for like 1024x768 (no widescreen on this old S3 card  ) ____________________ Post # 1923
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Peardian
Magikoopa
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 ...I still use a CRT. 
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I use an LCD now, though I'll still have to use a CRT on the new machine I'm getting since I don't have another LCD.
Besides, I don't think 1920x1080 is feasible on that thing's graphics card anyway. :|
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I remember the computer screens from when I was in....what was it, 1st grade? They were green. 
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paulguy
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I didn't really get to use computers in school much until I was in second grade, but I do remember in first and kindergarten there being some windows 3.1 machines. For second and third grade, there were Apple IIs, and if you were quick enough, you'd get one with a color monitor, otherwise you were stuck with a green monitor. The computer lab there had a bunch of Macs, but we didn't get to use them. I guess they were for the older grades. Probably worried that the younger students would break them or something.
After that, I was in a different school which only had Macs. Mostly PowerPC based, but there were some Motorola based ones knocking around, mostly for if a teacher needed one in their classroom, or for the library's computer based card catalog.
In 8th grade, I went to a different school again, and it was all PC based stuff until the end. That was around the first time I ever even used a modern LCD monitor (I had used laptop LCDs in the 90s but they were mostly uselessly bad.). Man did they suck back then. This one had a really odd pincushion effect, and the colors were really yellowed and overly bright.
When I went to college, they had all kinds of odd systems. PC based Windows, Mac, Solaris, Linux, SPARC/Solaris, probably some other more obscure stuff if you looked, but which probably required that you were in some certain class for supercomputing or embedded systems or something.
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Danika
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I still have a couple old CRT TVs (well, one is not so old, from 2006... although it's been in the shop once for repairs )
I used a Zenith TV from 1986 for all of my video games back in the day, using RF switches  (in fact, I used it until 2006, and I still have it today... I mainly use it for my older game systems  )
Jumping from RF switches to composite was a big leap for me, although I tend not to notice much of a quality difference anymore...
I now use component for my Wii, although I keep the composite cable around if I need to hook it up to my older TV. When I get a PS3, I'm definitely buying the HDMI cable for it, though... I want to see the games in high-definition  ____________________ Post # 1935
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