This past week my little 12" colour VGA monitor for my servers died. I'm going to replace it with a newer 14" or 15" SVGA monitor shortly. I was checking out the labels on the back to find out how old it is and was shocked: it was made in 1988, 17 years old!! I've never seen such an old monitor that still worked reasonably well. I've seen 6 year old monitors ready for the graveyard. It was an IBM.
Local computer stores say that 17" is the smallest size made nowadays and if I want something smaller I have to buy used, or LCD screen. Marco brought up an interesting point... what about the retail cash machines? They seem to run Windows and have tiny little screens. I didn't see any on ebay but I'm not willing to spend any more than $50 max on a used monitor for the servers anyway. I can pick one up in Barrie for $25 bucks if I want.
Working from his home office in Toronto,
Ryan de Laplante can be found developing software in
Java by day, and obsessing with technology by night.
Ryan has been designing and writing software for
IJW since 1998 and is very passionate about his work.
