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- From: timm@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Tim McClarren)
- Subject: Re: Mono Monitor Size: 17" or 16" or 15.5" ?
- References: <1992Sep3.172140.1236@proforma.com> <Bu7CFv.DsJ@iat.holonet.net>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 11:22:22 GMT
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- bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams) writes:
-
- >>I am a bit annoyed that my so-called 17" monochrome monitor seems to
- >measure more like 16" (with a picture of 15.5")
-
- >Hmmm Well if you take the number of pixels per inch as quoted in the
- >reference manuals (92) multiplied by the height and width using
- >Pythagora's Theorem (x^2+Y^2= Diaganal^2) you see that NeXT DID NOT LIE
- >and YOUR MONITOR MUST BE ~15.5 INCHES ELSE IT WOULD NOT MATCH THE SPECS.
- >
- >I guess you just do not like the evil marketing slimy people that round-up
- >to the nearest inch and THEN ADD THE PHANTOM INCHE OF GLASS UNDER THE BEZEL.
- >
- >Thus a 14 inch monitor is always a 13 inch tube, and most 15 inch monitors
- >are really 13 inch tubes. Lukily a 16 inch is a sixteen inch and thats
- >what you have. PS I am writing this ON THE WORLDS LARGEST COMPUTER TUBE
- >MONITOR... A Viking 24 inch from Monitorm (R.I.P.). I know its not exacly 24
- >inches diagonally but as long as I always own the biggest and best I don't
- >really count the inches.
- >
- >BWilliams
-
- Can't be so. Mitsubishi makes a 35" monitor.
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