[wellylug] Widescreen LCD with Xorg

[Jamie Baddeley]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 23:03 +1300, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:48, Jethro Carr wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>it's working at 1024x768
> > 
> > 
> > When I was your age, I had to walk 10 miles through the snow before my 
> > monitors would work at 1024x768.
> > 
> > You kids today have it soft...
> > 
> We would have considered that luxury! We had to walk two ways through 
> the snow to get our monitors to 320 x 200. Carrying sacks of coal.
> 
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/C64_GEOS.png

Sacks of Coal!

Lucky Bastard!

We had to walk through a howling blizzard, 10 miles down the road, over
a stream with piranhas, avoiding a bad tempered bridge troll just to
listen to the old wise man with the beard of doom talk about the ZX81!
http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/computers/zx81/zx81.htm

And upgrading to the Vic20!
How I miss the sound of the tape drive jamming in the summertime...

ahh by gum..

:-)

jamie