Re: RESPONSE: What size is a 17" monitor really ? buyer accuses fraud. HELP!

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From: Ken Green
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 12:10

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Greg Elkinbard (elkinbar@filly.EBay.Sun.COM) wrote:
> What is a 17" monitor in the PC world, is a 16" monitor in the workstation
> world.  Sun has resently resonded to the market presures by relabling their
> 19" monitor to 20".  I've seen Sony 1630 advertized as a 17" monitor all
> over the place, while according to Sony it is only 16".

Sony where the first people I came across playing this game. When I left HP we
used either 16" or 19" screens, I left to go and work with Sony workstations
and they called the same monitors 17" and 20". This was nearly 4 years ago.

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From: ken@kgcc.demon.co.uk (Ken Green)
Subject: Re: RESPONSE: What size is a 17" monitor really ? buyer accuses fraud. HELP!
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