I wanted to offer a small memorial to a KFC monitor. KFC -- ridiculed for the name -- only later changed its name to Smile, which presumably was somewhat less ridicule-worthy.
I got this monitor back in the summer of 1993, with a then-state-of-the-art computer. I think the total package ran about $4K, which got a 486dx2-66 with 8mb memory and a 250mb hard drive. I remember being so proud of the highly flexible motherboard -- 32-bit EISA, 32-bit VLB and 16-bit ISA -- because it would be compatible for a long, long time. PCI came out several months later. And, yes, the package came with the KFC monitor, with a then-relatively rare flat screen.
So the 486 chugged along until 1999, working on a computer that started with DOS and ended up with Slackware 3.3. Then came the new computer -- a P3-500 -- with an unstable NT4, which quickly became 2000, which quickly became Windows ME, which only recently became XP Home. The monitor stayed through it all.
Now the "new" computer runs VNC with openings through my firewall, making a monitor a relatively moot point. But only today I tried to turn it on ... and got nothin, not even a power light.
Rest in peace, little monitor dude. You done good.
I got this monitor back in the summer of 1993, with a then-state-of-the-art computer. I think the total package ran about $4K, which got a 486dx2-66 with 8mb memory and a 250mb hard drive. I remember being so proud of the highly flexible motherboard -- 32-bit EISA, 32-bit VLB and 16-bit ISA -- because it would be compatible for a long, long time. PCI came out several months later. And, yes, the package came with the KFC monitor, with a then-relatively rare flat screen.
So the 486 chugged along until 1999, working on a computer that started with DOS and ended up with Slackware 3.3. Then came the new computer -- a P3-500 -- with an unstable NT4, which quickly became 2000, which quickly became Windows ME, which only recently became XP Home. The monitor stayed through it all.
Now the "new" computer runs VNC with openings through my firewall, making a monitor a relatively moot point. But only today I tried to turn it on ... and got nothin, not even a power light.
Rest in peace, little monitor dude. You done good.