Monitor sizes in 1995

Masterdog

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Hi chaps,

This might seem like a stupid question, and it is. But I'm going to ask it anyway: what size monitor would the average home PC bought in 1995 have had? I'm trying to remember what my first PC had, and I've got it in my head that it was 11 inches. But that seems ridiculously small now, and I'm thinking maybe it was 14. However, I'm sure I didn't get a 14 inch monitor until later.
I tried to put a topic in that made sure you knew the kind of pointless topic that would be contained within. If you feel your time has been wasted reading this, I sympathise.

Cheers,

MD
 
15" was about average back then (I had to use more fishbowl CRTs of that size than I care to remember). 17" was a special treat. :p
 
Back then I was using:

13" 800x600
14" 1280x1024 (used to run it at 1024x768@85Hz as it was a bit small for 1280x and 60Hz was nasty)
15" 1280x1024 (used to run it at 1152x864 for 85Hz as personally I can't stand anything under ~80Hz).
 
14" back in 1995 good old CRT with a glare screen in front of it running at 800 x 600 @ 85Hz........ahh those were the days good old Windows 95 with Plus pack
 
all i can remember is that max res was like 1024x768 on our first pc which was from ibm, still got all of it in the garage, maybe ill dig it out when im off next week! ITS NEVER BEEN FORMATTED! so its gonna be a gold mine of nostalgia

anyway before the pc my dad had a few really old macs from work that had tiny screens, christ knows what happened to those though.
 
I think I had a 14" back in about 92, went up to a 15" in about 98 and 17 in 2000.

I seem to have stayed on about 20-22 since about 2002 (Sony CRT which weighed a tone, then a Dell).
 
14" @ 1024*768 on my 1995 AST PC

Then moved on to 17" in 2000 then 21" a couple of years after that, all CRT. Then it was back down to 17" (TFT) when the 21" tube went. Now 22" and I want bigger! :eek:
 
Masterdog said:
Hi chaps,

This might seem like a stupid question, and it is. But I'm going to ask it anyway: what size monitor would the average home PC bought in 1995 have had? I'm trying to remember what my first PC had, and I've got it in my head that it was 11 inches. But that seems ridiculously small now, and I'm thinking maybe it was 14. However, I'm sure I didn't get a 14 inch monitor until later.
I tried to put a topic in that made sure you knew the kind of pointless topic that would be contained within. If you feel your time has been wasted reading this, I sympathise.

Cheers,

MD
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At work I had a 21" running on my Apollo workstation it was the dogs. I was also using Mentor Graphics CAD software with gesture recognition loved it.

At home I had an 14" monitor on an Acorn Archimedes 310 with a 20MB (yes M!) ST506 hard disk and a IBM PC with 640K and a 17" monitor - command and conquer rocked !
 
14" screens at 1024*768 resolution were pretty much the norm back then. If you wanted to splash out, then 17" was do-able. Larger screens (up to 21") with higher resolutions (1600*1200) were incredibly expensive back then.
 
Dang if I remember monitors like sonys flat tritiron stuff was wetting everyones lips, no more curved screens!!


I do miss my 486dx noisiest damn pc I ever had tho
 
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