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From: phr@lightning.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: hi-res *mono* monitors? (was Loop non-int)
Message-ID: <PHR.91Apr21005439@lightning.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 21 Apr 91 08:54:38 GMT
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Personally I've never seen a color monitor that I'd want to
sit down in front of all day and edit text in front of.
The Sun monochrome monitors are near-perfect to me: sharp,
big screen, high resolution, flicker free.  Unfortunately
the only comparable screens I've seen for PC's cost a fortune.
Any idea why this is?  Any recommendations?  I'd like
to get a 1280x1024 mono display system with 16" or 17" monitor
and suitable high refresh rate (flicker bothers me)
but all the ones I know of are >$2k, which seems absurd
(given that a Sparcstation SLC equipped with such a monitor
is about $3k discounted).