Instead of being used primarily for word processing and similar tasks, we use our home PCs for everything from web surfing to playing games, editing home videos, updating social media, cataloging digital photos and watching streaming video. Home computers went from a rarity to commonplace. The current computing situation has completely changed in every way.įirst of all, what we use those computers for has evolved and we have become a society of multitaskers. Besides, few computers could support multiple monitors and other than very specialized applications, the need to have multiple screens wasn’t really there. When a monitor offers just 12 additional inches of screen real estate, takes up half your desk and costs as much as a mortgage payment or two? Yeah, you need to have a pretty good reason to use more than screen. Accounting for inflation, that thing cost the equivalent of $1400 in today’s dollars. It was powered by a cathode ray tube (CRT) which made it massive, weighing nearly 11kg. As the name suggests, that was a whopping 12-inches of display space-smaller than the screen of my current laptop. The first computer monitor I bought (not counting the TV used with a VIC-20) was a 12-inch Apple RGB display. Those things were huge, they were bulky, they were expensive and they were power hogs. In the earlier days of the PC, a single computer monitor made perfect sense.
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