Yup!
I grabbed a aforementioned Portrait monitor at the univ junk sale,
(it was already OLD then) then donated it to the lady (maybe 12 years
ago) who edited my thesis and dissertation. She could do stuff on
the small monitor, like email and daily grind stuff, while she had a
word file up on the portrait editing two full size pages at a
time. It increased her productivity so much she didn't charge for my
dissertation. She cried when she was no longer able to use that
monitor! It is only recently with big widescreen flat monitors
that two pages at a time on one monitor became realistic again.
At 12:03 PM 9/10/2009, you wrote:
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Redghost <redgh...@comcast.net> wrote:
> First no monitor mac was the plain Mac II. Huge box with six NUBUS slots.
Six slots, any or all of which could be filled with a video card, with
OS support to use them to display a single contiguous workspace
regardless of the size or resolution of the monitors attached. I
remember in 1987 being blown away by a floor display at an Apple
dealer of a Mac II with four or five monitors gratuitously attached
simultaneously---some large, some small, some color, some B/W (the
late, lamented 2-bit grayscale Apple Portrait Display, I believe).
This was 15 years or so before Windows machines could reliably offer
this feature, and I don't think anyone really grokked its significance
at the time except Photoshop users, who soon cottoned to the idea of
putting your document window on one big monitor and your toolbars,
palettes, etc. on a second, smaller one. Some people are only just
now getting it---you still see articles and blog entries in the
corporate IT press with titles like "Use Two Monitors For Greater
Productivity!"
Alex
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