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

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From: Mike Chapman
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 17:20

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In article <2lsgmm$lkd@news.doit.wisc.edu>,
Adisak Pochanayon <pochanay@cae.wisc.edu> wrote:
>In article <CMI1sz.5C3@kgcc.demon.co.uk> ken@kgcc.demon.co.uk (Ken Green) writes:
>>Greg Elkinbard (elkinbar@filly.EBay.Sun.COM) wrote:
>>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.
>>
>
>     Actually, the Sony 17" monitor only has a 15.7 inch viewing area when
>measured diagonally.  I sometimes think that 17" is the size of the "monitor"
>and not the tube ;) !!!!!!

I don't believe this is correct.  The 16" trinitrons sold with Suns (maybe
called 17" now) are quite a bit smaller than the 17" trinitrons that
Sony put on their workstations (the 1280x1024 fixed frequency, I wish
I remembered the model number).

The 16" monitors that came with IPCs and IPXs (and others) in the new
cases are really 15", and quite a bit smaller than the old 16" (really 16")
which is in turn a good bit smaller than the real 17" trinitrons (I've only
seen on Sony workstations).
-- 
    Mike Chapman   mike@hopper.itc.virginia.edu   ...!virginia!doxy!mike

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