[Elecraft] OT: PC Monitor resolution

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

800x600 is the safe resolution that supports (comes up on) any screen
including some old IBM notebooks that are amazingly still in use
mostly for non-business use, including my trusty old 760XL Thinkpad,
which I carry around for running antenna analysis and saving scan
graphs.  W5BIG, when informed that 800x600 was still in use, had the
AIM4170 code sense that and confine to the 800 width.  There was
really no problem in doing so.  It still amazes me that people think
that we want to read book pages on a 16x9 format.  The engineers have
movies on the brain.

One of the reasons I use it still is that it has a real RS232 serial
port (gasp) and it is flexible running off external batteries.

My on-the-desk monitor is a 30 inch 2560x1600 16x10 which allows me to
spread the entire page of my newspaper virtual edition across the
screen and read it like the paper edition. Or keep ten to fifteen
windows open AND visible.  What I really wanted though was a 2560x1960
 4x3 surface which I could run as 3x4. (Fat chance.)

73, Guy

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Mike <nf4l at nf4l.com> wrote:
> 1280 x 800 on a 22" LCD on my desktop. The laptop is 1024 x 768 on 15" LCD.
>
> 73, Mike NF4L
>
> Dick Dievendorff wrote:
>> Don:
>>
>> I've recently made a fair number of changes to the K3 Utility (still in
>> Field Test) so that all its dialogs would fit on a "netbook" that has a
>> screen size of 1024 x 600. Vertical space was the challenge.
>>
>> Dick, K6KR
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Don Rasmussen
>> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 7:02 PM
>> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: [Elecraft] OT: PC Monitor resolution
>>
>> Is anyone reading this list using a monitor or LCD resolution at less than
>> 1280 pixels across? Wondering what the lowest common denominator would be
>> for monitor resolution these days.
>>
>> My DELL LCD is nothing special and it goes to 1440 by 900.
>>
>> Anyone venture to guess at what the lowest common denominator would be these
>> days for a PC XP machine?
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