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Not just big and heavy. Old monitors were deep. Corners were a great place to dump all that wasted depth.
I remember when we had lan parties back in the day and one of my friends who was an intern in a it firm could take one of their super nice monitors home. It was just as deep as a normal monitor and 19 inches i think, but it was somehow special or better because the screen itself wasn’t curved, it was straight. That thing was so heavy it almost broke my desk that i offered him. It was a two man operation to move that thing. i mean more of a two boy operation, it was still heavy as fuck.
Sounds like a Sony Trinitron to me. I had a 17" one for about a decade and it was equally magnificent and heavy. The largest one was 24" 16:10 widescreen.
https://aperturegrille.fandom.com/wiki/SONY_GDM-FW900
I wanted one so badly, but while these were finally somewhat affordable in 2010 (and still vastly superior to any flat-screen monitor), the shipping costs would have been ruinous.
I had a 21” trinitron at uni in the 00s— it was beautiful, ran 2048x1536, and weighed a ton.
God, I hated Trinitrons. We had them at work and while they had noticeably sharper images, my brain never could filter out the two horizontal wires that stabilized the grill.
But degauss made everything wobble for a few moments.
… But as soon as someone showed you The Line, you could no longer NOT see it, which meant you had to sell it.
So in what way were they better? Back in the day, even he didn’t know, the only answer i got from him was that tge screen was flat. I didn’t really bother anymore because that was also the year people started showing up with flatscreens.
Sharper and brighter images for a while. The aperture grille design allowed more light through than the shadow masks for a while until shadow mask manufacturing quality caught up in the late '80s. The flat screen offered a simpler geometry that allowed for sharper images until the old school CRT manufacturing caught up in the mid '90s. By the early '00s, there were really no advantages and they were riding on name recognition as a superior brand until the late 00’s when LCDs finally overcame their size and price hurdles.
i would still want one of those monitors, but the few i’ve seen are ridiculously priced.
I worked in tech since about 2000. I was super evangelical about lcd’s. Wanted to get rid of our crts asap. Unfortunately the ones we kept the longest were huge ones that had geat specs.
Also because everyone loves sitting in the corner. Bonus points if it’s made out of oak and weighs 1500 kg.
My experience are that these are made out of chipboard and gradually breakdown after a few months of use
My experience is that they collapsed under the weight of contemporary CRTs.
I would love to see a contemporary CRT :(
I had one for 10 years and the only thing that broke was the keyboard tray because I put a lot of pressure on it with my feet. I still have the filling cabinet that came with it after 21 years.
probably because monitors where so big
Nah. Legroom.
Legroom is key for some of us, and the shallow side runs have nothing underneath for space.
Getting the right keyboard height was almost impossible. That keyboard tray was about 6 months of knee bumps away from death!
Motorized desks really improved things for me.
lol … I’ve got the exact same desk and I converted it to a longer desk to place two systems on it … the corner design is a pain because they place a post at the corner so any leg room you had down there is lost because the of corner post. Then you also lose space with the keyboard tray because only a small area is clear in the center and you lose space at the angled corners where your hand keeps hitting the left keyboard side and the right hand is squeezed in by the desk and mouse. Then you also lose space in the corner desk area with a large monitor because you can’t recess a 26" flat screen, you have to bring it out. I had to move and redesign the upper shelves to place two 26" monitors in the corner and one off the side.
Neat idea but it doesn’t really save you any space or increase comfort.
They don’t work well with widescreen monitors, let alone ultrawide or multi monitor setups. They give this illusion of space but ultimately they’re just too cramped.
It was all about depth, a monitor back in the days was massive.
CRTs were one reason, but the other was because you had to have storage for all your manuals and CDs and Floppy disks and other stuff you were constantly putting in your computer and taking out.
I love them but I don’t bother with custom jobs like this. I just put a desk in a corner and have another desk or table of the same height but up against it. I like putting some shelves in the corner behind the monitor for storage
Custom job? You could buy these corner desks in big flat packs.
I think he meant custom as in specifically made to be a computer desk. I don’t think those aren’t custom at all either but I get what he means.
yeah. I don’t buy things I don’t need to. I get all the function I need from my current desk/table comb
Good times playing Gary’s Mod and Counter Strike sitting at that exact same desk.
both of our desks in the office are ‘corner’ ones… no hutch over either, though, so the back corner space is usable. one has fairly large laser printer in the corner and the deeper ‘leg’ of the desk does still have a crt monitor (19in trinitron) on it (the other side has three 5:4 lcd), the other desk holds a sff slim tower and a rack for file folders in its corner. they each also have one or two midtower pc on the floor under the corner and out of the way.