Project Twenty Three

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since September 22, 2009

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September 22, 2009, on Collaboration Machines:
Gateway 2000 Destination 36" monitor; A Rare Beast I have one of these monitors. It now (September 2009) lives in my garage. It serves as the main display of my (now retro) Windows 98 system. While 640x480 is quite a crunch for display technology today, this monitor serves me well for my (now) retro software out here in the wilds of my garage in Texas. (ever lived somewhere that it feels like you are breathing water? Its HUMID here during the spring/fall) Just for history sake, lets look back at the life of my 'garage monitor'. Some time in 1997 my emplyer purchased 6 Gateway Destination 36" monitors for use in his Network Operations Center. A custom WALL was built to house these 6 monitors; 3 on top, 3 on bottom. These 6 monitors were connected to a custom build x86 PC (Dual P-III 700 if I recall correctly) with 2 3-head PCI Matrox Video cards. This 1 PC served as our primary network monitoring display system for around 5 years. Around 2003 it was decided by the ...