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Article #289Re: HDD, RAM and Mongrels [Was: 120 GB Hard Drive]
From: John J. Burness
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:08
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:08
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Codswallop wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:15:31 GMT, John J. Burness wrote in > aus.computers: > > >>A 15" Monitor has always been a 15" Monitor!! The problem was this >>dimension ONLY descibed the physical external dimensions & had NOTHING > > > Wasn't it the TUBE size they referred to, not the CASE size? > > 17" CRT monitors still have 16-16.8" viewable area whereas 17" LCD are > 17" viewable. > They have changed the way they refer to CRTs. Under the old system, you were more likely to get significantly less than 16" viewable with a 17" Tube. The history goes back to the days when CRTs were totally round & the dimension was based on the external dimension of the Tube diameter. When eventually they started making rectangular Tubes (primarily for the Consumer TV market), the nearest equivalent to the old diameter size was the external diagonal size. It is this size that has been used up until the current trend of specifying the Viewable Area size. Just to add to the confusion, for many, many years the rectangular display face (even for the old circular Tubes) had an "Aspect Ratio" (Ratio of width to height) of 4:3. Some of the modern Wide-Screens have Aspect Ratios of 16:9, whilst I believe it can also vary outside of these Ratios now!! Regards, John
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a33e,b67c5e8af274ac00 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a33e,public X-Google-Thread: 108c83,4803458b00a05a09 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-29 16:09:36 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!skynet.be!landlord!wards.force9.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John J. Burness" <JohnJBurnessAT@ieeDOT.org> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell,aus.computers Subject: Re: HDD, RAM and Mongrels [Was: 120 GB Hard Drive] References: <40184fe4$0$11463$61fed72c@news.rcn.com> <0L3Sb.28740$qx2.3400569@stones.force9.net> <bvb6od$qe8sf$1@ID-151056.news.uni-berlin.de> <94fa00e143a994153c6edd1af73156fe@news.teranews.com> <0gbSb.19874$tQ6.1176139@wards.force9.net> <Xns948070014C910codswallopcom@139.132.1.4> In-Reply-To: <Xns948070014C910codswallopcom@139.132.1.4> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 36 Message-ID: <ljhSb.19960$tQ6.1204301@wards.force9.net> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:08:39 +0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.159.107.246 X-Complaints-To: abuse@plus.net.uk X-Trace: wards.force9.net 1075421521 212.159.107.246 (Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:12:01 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:12:01 GMT Organization: Customer of PlusNet