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| | | (...) A 17" monitor that only goes up to 640x480? Hmm. Hmm. What year was the monitor produced? Does it have an 18-pin VGA connector? (...) You might want to try the Lucida Sans (monospace) font at 8-pt if you have it on your system, otherwise (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Horizontal scrolling while posting? (was: Re: whoop de doo) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) I have one of these too. (which I never use for anything) (...) 1986 (...) No. But it does work with VGA via a special adaptor cable, as well as working with CGA and EGA. (remember those? :-) ) ++Lar (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Horizontal scrolling while posting? (was: Re: whoop de doo) —Kevin Salm
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| | | | | (...) (640x480?) (...) which (...) Beginning to sound like I bought a cheap monitor..... Monitor is AOC Spectrum model 7Vlr 17 inch 14-pin VGA connector manufactured 2/99 purchased 5/99 Video hardware is 640x480 in True Color, RAGE IIC AGP (English) (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Horizontal scrolling while posting? (was: Re: whoop de doo) —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) Well, honestly, it's not the best monitor out there. But: (URL) has some specifications [1]: 17" (16.0" visible) w/ .28mm Dot Ptich VESA, XGA, SVGA, VGA Compatible VESA 85Hz Refresh Rate Preset [2] 1280x1024 maximum resolution So I'd say (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Horizontal scrolling while posting? (was: Re: whoop de doo) —Kevin Salm
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| | | | | | Xfered from admin.general..... (...) Thanks a ton Matthew. I am now set at 1280x1024 with my browser fonts just where I want them and everything is most excellent. Re-installing ATI Rage did not help. However, the website for my monitor's (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Horizontal scrolling while posting? (was: Re: whoop de doo) —Susan Hoover
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| | | | (...) I wouldn't recommend that people use Terminal unless they don't mind translating in their heads when people use characters from the upper- 128. Terminal is an OEM font, codepage 437, like the old PC-"ANSI" BBSes used to use for their graphics. (...) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Readable text fonts for screen editing (was: Re: Horizontal scrolling while posting? (was: Re: whoop de doo)) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Ahh, good point. I used Terminal 6pt for everything in the old days, but that was before +128 was a big deal. I'd forgotten about the character set of Terminal. (...) I switched from Terminal to Lucida Console (that's what I meant to write (...) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | Re: Readable text fonts for screen editing (was: Horizontal scrolling...) —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | (...) I use 8 pt. Fixedsys (the font Notepad uses) for email, html editting and other applications which require a fixed width font. It's very easy to read, easier than Terminal, IMO, and much easier than Courier, which is usually too light-weight. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | Re: Readable text fonts for screen editing (was: Horizontal scrolling...) —Susan Hoover
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| | | | (...) Just tried both Lucida Console and FixedSys. They are both lighter weight and have a different aspect (taller vs. width) than Terminal, so either one will take some getting used to. I use Terminal for just about everything -- newsreading, (...) (25 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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