Let's Play Games on an LCD from 1989!

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In this video we take a closer look at the Philips PM11211 monochrome LCD monitor from 1989! ►
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@svanderlaars 7 месяцев назад

So cool to see my old screen on youtube! Glad it received a great home now! Thank you for sharing this video and for giving it a loving home! =D

@RetroGameCouch 7 месяцев назад

Sorry for the late reply! Thank you for shipping it my way!

@Larry 8 месяцев назад

That's super impressive for 1989, I honestly have thought it would be incredibly screen door-ish with a screen that big.

@fuzzywzhe 7 месяцев назад

These monitors were designed for text display, not graphics. The update is terrible. This was fine for typing and coding, but that was it.

@joeysluzer1913 7 месяцев назад

Not really. The Macintosh Portable (Apple's first laptop) came out in 1989, and it had an active matrix LCD (no ghosting). Meaning the tech was there to make a much better LCD desktop monitor.

@fuzzywzhe 7 месяцев назад

@@joeysluzer1913 The Mac Portable DID have ghosting. It wasn't as bad as this display, but it was certainly noticeable.

@ClemensWennersMusic 8 месяцев назад

I'm a sucker for that monochrome CRT look.. that green on black is so lovely. But that LCD is such a cool piece of tech.. way ahead of its time! Back when Philips was something to be proud of being Dutch! 😄 Great video mate! Everything looks and sounds amazing!

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

Agreed. I almost went for my amber monochrome monitor (as that was my first monitor), but decided to go for the green one. Just looks so cool. And thanks mate!! 🖥️🖥️🖥️

@jaapaap123 8 месяцев назад

It was probably not made by philips, otherwise it would have been broken within a year.

@vanCaldenborgh 7 месяцев назад

I was never much of a fan of Philips products growing up in the 80ties-early 90ties. The were mostly mediocre at best, often crappy and bad designed from the beginning. The cool stuff came from Japan and Germany. Still have my Sennheiser headphones, only replaced the foam twice.

@combatdigiq 7 месяцев назад

Philips was dutch when it was doing lightbulbs only. Discarded their employees like dirt later. nothing to be proud of, more like something to be ashamed of. Philips still sucks to this day, they make crap.

@ronny332 8 месяцев назад

For display of that age, the ghosting is very little. Compared with some laptops from the 90s it is more good than bad. Nice find! 🙂 Off topic: Philips was such an amazing company bad at those days. My grandfather (from Groningen in the North of the Netherlands), was a huge Philips fan and proud of having a company from the Netherlands acting globally. If I remember correctly they had a factory of Philips at the old outskrits. But fore sure the technical changes and low prices from the East made Philips reduce itself what it is today. At least they are alive 🙂

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

Philips was a very innovative company, inventing things like the cassette tape and the compac disc (CD). The Philips that remains today is a shadow of its former self.

@kostis2849 8 месяцев назад

They were half-dead already at that time, selling technology from taiwan

@thenegotiator9701 8 месяцев назад

I’m from Belgium and they also had a big site in Kiewit near Hasselt, It’s now called corda campus

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

@thenegotiator9701 I never knew that, and I just looked it up. nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_(Hasselt)

@zemblatika 8 месяцев назад

@@RetroGameCouch Philips is still very innovative however only with medical equipement.

@der.Schtefan 8 месяцев назад

Back when EVERYTHING needed an ISA interface card with a custom DSUB connector. The panel looks surprisingly modern when switched off, but the plastic base colour and design language definitely tells on its age.

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

The thing doesn't have a single bit of plastic on it, except for the adjustment knob.

@gabotron94 8 месяцев назад

The panel looks perhaps like a modern tablet, but the base screams 90s Philips - maybe I've seen too many DCC videos

@Kalvinjj 8 месяцев назад

Incredible how things have evolved, nowadays I think you might get that same performance out of an e-ink display even, let alone resolution. But it does look like something from the early late 90s/2000s indeed.

@DesertRainReads 8 месяцев назад

For something this old, I'm actually impressed with how clear the display is, it held up extremely well. Goes to show how ahead of the game Philips was.

@kemi242 8 месяцев назад

This monitor was pretty much ahead of its time with its digital interface, predating DisplayPort and HDMI by 30 years.

@TheBcoolGuy 8 месяцев назад

More like 20, and DVI was released in 1999. So 10 years.

@Nikku4211 7 месяцев назад

CGA also had its own digital 4-bit RGBI interface, though typically CRTs supporting it have to convert it to analogue.

@jorge69696 8 месяцев назад

Incredible how a monitor this old manages to keep the ghosting to modern VA levels.

@trailersic 7 месяцев назад

This is very much how I played Digger back on my dad's Zenith 80s Laptop, except that LCD was blue.

@NijiDash 8 месяцев назад

Loved seeing this, very much ahead of its time when it comes to design (except bezels). Reminds me very much of the day I first saw the Sony XEL-1 OLED TV and being blown away by how slim the display part was. This would've evoked the same feelings back in the day when this LCD came out I'd imagine. Nowadays it's possible to find older LCD's being sold for single digit prices, or even tossed. Amazing to see how far we've come. Subscribed!

@Wobble2007 7 месяцев назад

It's sad that Sony's and Panasonics proper RGB-OLED tech was never really developed properly, we have ended up with a much less impressive tech, aka WOLED, which is only a mere upgrade vs the best LCD displays, RGB-OLED on the other hand, especially combined with Sony and Panasonics motion technolgy, is a huge advancment in display tech vs LCD display tech, thankfully there is now a strong possibility that TCL is going to at least release a fairly close version of Sony & Panasonics JOLED technology (RGB-OLED) it remains to be seen what modulation tech they will pair it with though, I really hope it's not basic sample & hold mudulation.

@Ace1000ks19751982 7 месяцев назад

A LCD monitor in 1989 that is unheard of!!!! I didn't know such a thing even existed. The first LCD monitor I got was in 2000, it was a Viewsonic 17", and it cost like $700. A LCD monitor in 1989 must have cost a small fortune. Back in 1990s, laptops were expensive, because the cost of LCD screens. Today, laptops are cheap and desktops are expensive. LOL

@BestSpatula 8 месяцев назад

Beautiful example of what would have been state of the art for its time. Is still presentable today. Your video captures the nuance of this relic quite well.

@StargateMax 6 месяцев назад

I was 9 when it was made. :D I love old retro gear more and more nowadays. :O

@FireFlux73 8 месяцев назад

I've never seen one of those monitors. Great video. Keep up the good work. Take care. :)

@Jammet 8 месяцев назад

Love it! :3 Could watch you actually play on this for a long time, too! :D

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

Thank you. It was a treat playing on this beauty. 😁

@ewansbuzz127 8 месяцев назад

What an awesome display! And really great video on it too! This is the first time I have even seen a vintage LCD monitor for a PC too!

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@Controllerhead 8 месяцев назад

He's a ghostie boi! Looks great for the time though, very futuristic design. My dad had a work laptop from the early 90s with an LCD screen that used to ghost like this playing games, i played those Learning Company Super Solvers ones at that time. Thanks for the memories!

@tdata545 7 месяцев назад

I'm impressed with how thin it is. Especially the bezels. LOL...

@curvingfyre6810 8 месяцев назад

wild to see something so modern built with such ancient features. A proprietary video port, and an external ribbon cable, thats wild.

@dcfly 8 месяцев назад

What an interesting find. Usually, LCD displays from that era have a bad reputation, but the Philips looks really sharp.

@Techno-Universal 4 месяца назад

Also looks like something that could have been widely used in fast food restaurants and high end retail stores in 1989 or a bit later! :)

@Synthematix 7 месяцев назад

I used a similar display years ago, what i did was buy some A4 acetate coloured sheets to change the colour of the display

@MGRracing 7 месяцев назад

This screen with its suoer slow ghosting reminds me of the first laptop's we had at school. I think they were 8086 cpu with no hard disk and a pair of 3.5 floppy disks. Disk A: had MSDOS and any other software installed and Disk B: had whatever you wanted on it. I remember filling the forms out to take them home for 'school work' . Really I was playing leisure Suit Larry and Accolade F1 and Test Drive 😂 .

@Power2All 8 месяцев назад

Leuk om te zien man. Had vroeger ook een CGA, EGA, VGA en SVGA machine. Vroeger wist ik niet eens dat er verschillende paletten er waren voor CGA, je kon dus switchen van kleuren, grappig dat ik dat uberhaupt nooit wist.

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

Fellow Dutchman!🌷🌷

@SayjuroZuckino 8 месяцев назад

Realy neat display. And even it's over 30 year old this display is even in such a good condition. It is a masterpiece of technology. 🙂 Great video as well. Fly on!

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

Thank you!!!

@aaroninclub 7 месяцев назад

The Macintosh Portable from the SAME YEAR did REAL 640x400 pixels, though it’s cool to see a desktop LCD on the market in the 80’s AT ALL. Also, it was active matrix, not passive.

@jacksonpb 8 месяцев назад

That design looks heavily modern.

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

Exactly. It wouldn't look out of place in a modern office, except for the diameter and bezels.

@roygillotti4615 7 месяцев назад

A lot better than the LCD quality than the Amstrad PPC640 I was using around then.

@awesomeferret 8 месяцев назад

I watched this on a 1600p LCD in my Lenovo Legion Y700 that I paid 350 dollars for. It's amazing how far LCD has come. LCD still has a place even in 2023.

@belstar1128 7 месяцев назад

bad deal in 2018 i got a 4k monitor for 250$

@putai1234 7 месяцев назад

@@belstar1128not everyone needs a 4K monitor y’know? I have an ol’ cheapo 1080p monitor I got for $60 and it does the job fine. Plus I prefer a solid 60fps with stable frame time than a constantly fluctuating high frame rate

@belstar1128 7 месяцев назад

@@putai1234 that is like saying nobody needs 720p back in 2005 and being happy with 480p. and you can watch videos in 4k and play older games in 4k. and just lower the resolution if the game doesn't run well in 4k. but I got a weak pc and most of my favorite games run well in 4k.

@fuzzywzhe 7 месяцев назад

LCD will be around for a long time. OLED has longevity problems although it is more energy efficient. Eventually OLED or something very similar to it in technology will replace LCD, but I think we're at least a decade away from it.

@logan_cadfgs 8 месяцев назад

Very modern-looking design for something so old tbh

@Lion_McLionhead 8 месяцев назад

LCD's that large had worked themselves into grocery stores by 1989. Would be interesting if someone found those displays.

@nicodeboer7429 8 месяцев назад

Philips nms9100 Man, that's memories. I t was the first pc in our house, my father bought it with a company computer plan and cost him something like 3500 guilders. It didnot have that fancy HD though. I was always tinkering with that thing, much to the chagrin of him. I bought a 3 button genius mouse for it and early 90's I bought a second hand lcd monitor with a graphics card, wich I installed myself. He was not amused (to say the least), until he saw how much of an improvement it made.

@parkman29 8 месяцев назад

It kinda looks like one of those cash register screens

@AndrewTubbiolo 8 месяцев назад

Wow, very modern!

@forbiddenera 7 месяцев назад

Much better looking than the lcd on my 1985 laptop

@CommodoreFan64 8 месяцев назад

Impressive tech for the time, but I'll admit that if I had that as a kid, I would have gotten laughed at by my friends for the B/W only image, and ghosting that makes it hard to see a lot of games. Having said that it's amazing how far LCD tech as come, when you get new 24in HD displays for under $100 USD these days, and a 55in 4K TV for under $300 USD lol.

@the_kombinator 8 месяцев назад

The bezel thickness alone tells me this is gonna be from the early 90s ;)

@BenvanBroekhuijsen 8 месяцев назад

Amazing, I had no idea that existed back in the day. Probably because I was a kid and 2000 gulden was way out my reach :D I think in that time I had a C64 still, or maybe I already sold it for my Sega Megadrive :D Amazing how far we have come in all these years. Now for about 300 euros you can have a 34inch ultra wide monitor of which people are complaining about smearing, which is nothing compared to what this little thing did. I must say for a Philips design, wich I always found ugly in general, this one looked quite tight and stylish.

@Bugatti12563 7 месяцев назад

love it

@QuadDerrick 8 месяцев назад

i remember test drive :) it was awesome... - some

@danfox121 7 месяцев назад

In 1989 most of the people used CGA, some where using EGA, a lot of people started to use VGA screens, not using monochrome CRT monitor "back in a day" in 1989. Big mistake..

@Shiunbird 8 месяцев назад

Woa - impressive. Grandfather of the T221.

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

Its 12 year older brother.😉

@GamingDad63 8 месяцев назад

Now you've made me want to dig out MY first PC. Not as cool as this one, but the memories... 😉 It's a Compaq Presario 425 with a DX CPU. Oh yeah, the "luxury" model 😛. It kinda looks like the computers from Fallout 3 🤔 Now that i think of it, THAT would be an interesting mod

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

You never know when nostalgia hits. Glad it was during one of my videos. 🎅

@massimo79mmm 8 месяцев назад

i had the “poor man” version, the 486sx 😂

@communalnoodle1356 8 месяцев назад

Cool old monitor!

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

Yeah. It's pretty amazing considering its age.

@locust76 7 месяцев назад

I remember being fascinated by an early 90s 486 laptop with a grayscale LCD such as this. Playing games with a gray-to-gray reaction time of 3 seconds is god awful in today's world, but back then it was amazing lol

@tristan6509 7 месяцев назад

Yeah they were called STN LCD panels It was awful, without pointer trails turned on you couldn't even see the mouse cursor when it id moving...

@RiasatSalminSami 8 месяцев назад

Try playing modern games on that LCD [enabling DSR in your graphics card should allow you to downsample higher resolution and output it back at the LCD's low native res, making newer games compatible in theory]. The ghosting looks awful but it does help make the low fps driving game look smooth to some extent.

@johneygd 8 месяцев назад

It certainly was ahead for it’s time,1989 was actually a start of a new age.

@westtell4 8 месяцев назад

WAIT I DIDN'T know that LCD's existed back then... i didn't start seeing them until early mid 2000's

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

LCD is a lot older than that!

@westtell4 8 месяцев назад

@@RetroGameCouch ok good to know i know early laptops had some kind of primitive LCD's but i don't actually remember seeing them outside of laptops until like 2004 2005 seems to be around the time i started noticing them for desktops

@jimbotron70 8 месяцев назад

@@westtell4lcd laptops were around since late 80s-early 90s, desktop lcds came around in late 90s-early 00s

@tookitogo 8 месяцев назад

@@westtell4Apple’s first desktop LCD, for the Apple IIc, was released alongside the machine itself - in 1984.

@zdanee 8 месяцев назад

I have a Philips 80 line green CRT in it's box, similar to the one you have, found in my late mom's inheritance. It has a 9-pin plug. Do you know any device that can be used to send any sort of modern input on this, like VGA, or even HDMI?

@VierPuntNul 8 месяцев назад

digger :) my all time favorite

@olepigeon 8 месяцев назад

I wonder if they made an orange or red Plasma version of this display. That'd look really nice.

@Lachlant1984 7 месяцев назад

Does the monitor get its power from the computer? What voltage and current does the ISA bus provide? The monitor almost looks like it was built for shop cash register/point of sale use.

@oldtwinsna8347 8 месяцев назад

Shows how early innovative products can get snubbed and passed off as interesting but not really going anywhere since it's against the grain of mainstream products. In this case, CRT madness was going on in the early 90s with VGA and greater graphical systems and would continue to do so through the end of the 90s.

@tenow 8 месяцев назад

You know what also has grayscale LCD and made in 1989? Well, the trails behind moving objects are very recognizable.

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

No, what is it?

@AffidavidDonda 8 месяцев назад

@@RetroGameCouch gameboy i guess

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

@@AffidavidDonda I was thinking that, but that wasn't really greyscale, more greenscale 😁

@rustapusta 7 месяцев назад

Macintosh portable (released 1989) had an 9.8″ monochrome active matrix LCD

@Techno-Universal 8 месяцев назад

Most LCD displays like that were used on industrial computer controlled machines back then.

@haramaschabrasir8662 8 месяцев назад

Wow, what a design piece

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

It really is amazing (a word I say A LOT in this video 😁)

@PixelPipes 8 месяцев назад

Software that supports 640x400 mode on other PCs such as Toshiba T3100 or AT&T 6300 might work on this setup. GeoWorks Ensemble 2.0, Windows/286 or even the recently released MicroWeb are ones that spring to mind.

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

I should give that a try.

@Knaeckebrotsaege 8 месяцев назад

To 1up this even further, one could add one of the very early CD-ROM drives made by Philips for PC use, the CDD-462. I have one but I'm missing the interface card and have not been able to find one or even what it's called :(

@HappyDiscoDeath 8 месяцев назад

the "Philips connection" is an RJ11 jack, used for landline and VoIP telephony in the US. Interesting that they chose that type! does it have 6 pins, or 4?

@lastotallyawesomebleach204 8 месяцев назад

It looks more like something from 2009 rather than 1989

@belstar1128 7 месяцев назад

it reminds me of all the cash registers in the early 2000s but the design looks too old for 2009 i would have guessed 2001 or something i am sure they used crts before that time

@rayceeya8659 8 месяцев назад

OMGI was expecting the ghosting to be bad but WOW. An Amazon Kindle has a better framerate.

@pupi-pupi 8 месяцев назад

this is one of the most futuristic devices I ever seen

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

Most futuristic >>retro

@pupi-pupi 8 месяцев назад

@@RetroGameCouch yes!

@ReNtSShepard-nu2mz 7 месяцев назад

I would have it used as the main screen by all those who say that it is impossible to work with any panel that runs below 144 Hz.

@Willie-tf7zr 8 месяцев назад

Retro futurism at it's finest.

@jackwilson5542 7 месяцев назад

Cool piece of tech for the era... Would it be possible it plug it into a modern machine somehow?

@RetroGameCouch 7 месяцев назад

It wouldn't even work in anything more modern than an XT, let alone a modern system without an ISA bus. Chances are slim.

@ClosestNearUtopia 8 месяцев назад

When you set motion interpolation to 100😂

@rayceeya8659 8 месяцев назад

2.2Kg?! OMG My 28" screen doesn't weigh that much.

@kjellvb1979 8 месяцев назад

At what point did they stop packing schematics with electronics? That should never have gone away, I know that I had a few radios in the 80's that came with them, granted I was like 6 or 7 when that happened, but I do remember it occurring more than once as a kid. Today companies do as much as possible to make sure you can't fix their products, and also try as much as possible to make it so you don't actually own the hardware you buy. Sad this country has gone so anti-consumer rights and very pro-corporation rights.

@fradd182 8 месяцев назад

The ghosting is pretty bad but i guess home office- small business users dd appreciate picture clearness and stability.

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

Exactly. This wasn't aimed towards gaming.

@jimbotron70 8 месяцев назад

If there were no moving pixels it was almost like e-paper screens!

@affegpus4195 8 месяцев назад

Thats some gameboy levels of ghosting. I wonder if was that bad when it was new or it is just the age of it

@belstar1128 7 месяцев назад

worse than game boy

@aidenh272 8 месяцев назад

Replace your smoke alarm battery. 😂

@rayproductionsbackupchanne3862 8 месяцев назад

Alot of Dutch tech youtubers recently popping up lol

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

Welkom iedereen!

@rayproductionsbackupchanne3862 8 месяцев назад

@@RetroGameCouch i have here a tulip pentium 1 laptop that somewhat works. i accidentally broke a transistor during refurbishment process of the plastics so if you can perhaps fix that. it'd be a decent video. these are intensly rare.

@tomaszk2242 8 месяцев назад

Amazing design as for '89. Feels like the break o 90s and 2000s.

@StonerJames 8 месяцев назад

The time when you were allowed to upgrade your own PC. Too bad the big tech companies won't let you do that today.

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

What I did was upgrade the monitor and GPU. Both thing you can still do today right?

@Kalvinjj 8 месяцев назад

eh, out of laptop market, the only ones you can't do anything to are what, Mac Minis? Even All In Ones you can still do RAM, storage and maybe more depending on model, let alone standard desktops. The included schematic whoever is as rare as it gets tho.

@belstar1128 7 месяцев назад

a lot of 80s computers were hard to upgrade like the c64 zx spectrum atari 8bit. i think this a big reason those companies don't exist anymore to be honest .great systems but they didn't improve much over the years .even the old macs were more upgradable

@semihguzelel9966 8 месяцев назад

refresh rate same as magna doodle toy 😄

@burrfoottopknot 7 месяцев назад

That keyboard connector looks like an RJ11 interface

@RetroGameCouch 7 месяцев назад

I think you're right.

@burrfoottopknot 7 месяцев назад

@@RetroGameCouch thx for the reply, great video

@jonathaningram8157 8 месяцев назад

I think there is a little bit of ghosting on your gaming screen.

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

Hmm.. I didn't notice that. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. 😁

@ovalwingnut 8 месяцев назад

1989 ??? Clearly that is advanced alien technology. Just saying. Very COoL.

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

Don't blow my cover!

@combatdigiq 7 месяцев назад

2000 guilders is 2000 euro. Funny how they sold that euro as 2.2 times the value of a guilder. I fact we've been screwed 2.2 times over. became 2.2 times as poor because of this euro that was going to make it better for everyone.

@moroboshidan7960 7 месяцев назад

6:34

@HappyDiscoDeath 8 месяцев назад

So then if it's from '89, it's about 34 years old, like me!

@HappyDiscoDeath 8 месяцев назад

It looks alright for something that old!

@TradieTrev 8 месяцев назад

That screen is horrible lol; Hey it's what we had back in the day. :)

@Wobble2007 7 месяцев назад

LCDs were only really any good for typing on up untill 2005, they were (and still are tbh) horrible for anything that has any actual motion, LCDs are the king of static resolution displays imo, as are all sample & hold displays, but nothing has ever actually convincingly challenged CRTs top spot for dynamic resolution (motion), with the exception of late generation Plasma, which actually came remarkebly close to CRTs 65-70hz dynamic resolution performnce, thanks to their incredible sub-field and focused-field drive modulation technology, the latter of which reached 0.4ms MPRT.

@rodneyol6836 7 месяцев назад

Do it with a ps5 😂

@cheaplife2320 7 месяцев назад

bende gij n nederlander ?

@RetroGameCouch 7 месяцев назад

Misschien.

@88tx 8 месяцев назад

the ghosting reminds me of OLED screen these days lol. the refresh rate is so crap except if u buy the $20k ones. even iphone oleds have terrible grey to grey response time lmao. no wonder nobody buys LCD monitor in the 80s.

@brend255 8 месяцев назад

Ik ruik Nederlands

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

Ik ontken alles.

@Classniy 7 месяцев назад

Lcd мониторы и телики полная ерунда. у меня был элт какой-то jvc из 90-х, и он был лучше по качеству и звуку, чем fhd плоский телевизор 2013г от lg , до сих пор эта хрень стоит лджишная, конечно это не топовый тв, а там см. 62. но а самсунг элт был уже из 2000-х это просто пушка, сломался наверное быстровато, но там было 100hz, и громкие динамики, с которыми бюджетные тв с lcd рядом не стоят до сих пор, конечно можно купить колонки, но блин нельзя что ли за 15к сделать было нормальный тв, это специально они сделали, чтобы страдать)

@jobalisk6649 7 месяцев назад

That lcd reminds me of my old toshiba 300cds. Terrible refresh rate

@wijons522 7 месяцев назад

Nice bid, but mind that that you talk with your hands, an awful lot!

@t0nito 8 месяцев назад

That ghosting is unbearable...

@Kerveros1904 8 месяцев назад

A glorified piece of junk. No wonder LCDs did not sell well until after 15 years later, when quality was considerably improved.

@aldob5681 7 месяцев назад

really a waste of money back in 89 being worse than any monocrome crt

@Xiefux 8 месяцев назад

who would even buy it back then? its so expensive and objectively worse than any crt

@RetroGameCouch 8 месяцев назад

I read somewhere that its selling points were less eye strain and less bulky. My guess it would have primarily been used by businesses.

@summersky77 8 месяцев назад

Yeah, there are certain pieces of tech that don't deserve revisiting. This garbage screen is one of them. There's nothing interesting about a shit passive matrix display.

@belstar1128 7 месяцев назад

ahead of its time but why would someone buy this its very bad compared to a crt from the time .