[wellylug] Widescreen LCD with Xorg

Rob Giltrap rob at kiwihq.com
Wed Jan 11 14:10:05 NZDT 2006


Jamie Baddeley wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 23:03 +1300, Cliff Pratt wrote:
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>>Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:48, Jethro Carr wrote:
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>>>>it's working at 1024x768
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>>>When I was your age, I had to walk 10 miles through the snow before my 
>>>monitors would work at 1024x768.
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>>>You kids today have it soft...
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>>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.
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>>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/C64_GEOS.png
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>Sacks of Coal!
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>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
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>And upgrading to the Vic20!
>How I miss the sound of the tape drive jamming in the summertime...
>
>ahh by gum..
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A ZX-81 with 24 * 32 characters....you luck, luck, lucky bastard.

I had to get up before I went to bed to milk the cows to earn enough 
money to buy a bus ticket to travel 30 miles to sit next to a guy talk 
about the 8 * 7segment red LEDs flickering on the Sinclair MK14 which he 
had brought over from England. Man that thing could display a whole word 
like "51InCLA1r"




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