[clug] Monitors that swivel

Carlo Hamalainen carlo.hamalainen at gmail.com
Sat Jun 6 10:34:59 GMT 2009


On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Hal Ashburner<hal.ashburner at gmail.com> wrote:
> I ended buying a stand for a 2x2 configuration for another $500. I found the
> 4x1 gives you a stiff neck and means you don't get the full benefit of "i
> need to see this now while I continue to work on that so I just open another
> window and it's an eye glance away, and now this too and also this." The use
> case is debugging code. Code in big font, 2 or more pieces of documentation,
> a compile window, a debugger and valgrind plus possibly a UI window. I run
> out of realestate on 2 screens when I do that.

All this talk of multiple monitors, widescreen monitors, and no one
has piped up to reminisce about the good old days of teletype? :)

PDP-11/40 with teletype:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4IztV7M3jI&feature=related

-- 
Carlo Hamalainen
http://carlo-hamalainen.net


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