On 8/6/25 2:05 PM, Patrik Schindler wrote:
I remember to have had a 3488 (?) connected to a CRT at one time.
Since the resolution coming out of the 3488 is nothing even remotely
close to any stock PC LCD resolution, the result is hurting the eye.
Is that what you mean?
With my DOS box at home, it took a lot of tweaking on my nice ViewSonic
LCD before DosShell or Xerox Ventura Publisher looked reasonably
comfortable.
And on the new DOSbook I set up for myself last year, I had to find an
obscure keystroke to blow up 640x480 to full screen, but at least it
comes out reasonably comfortable (and I added a label for that
keystroke, when I made a custom WordPerfect function key strip to fit
the thing).
Similarly, with the Yestation, I was able to tweak a Rosewill LCD (that
was taking up space, waiting for its "chance to shine again) so that it
would be reasonably comfortable and completely legible (and
incidentally, it has a "no scaling" option, but that doesn't help
vignetting one damn bit).
But you put our 3489 on an LCD, and parts of letters disappear
completely. Not especially uncomfortable, but it becomes even less
legible than my penmanship.
At any rate, I made up a label (I've got whole unopened bags of IBM
"cable labels" in a desk drawer) for one of the few bits of blank sheet
metal behind MERCURY's front cover, to remind me of what I learned today
about going straight to IPL as soon as mirroring shows as "Resuming." I
think I should bring some day-glo pink label stock from home, and re-do
the label tomorrow.
And all I remember is that decades ago, when we had a working 3487, the
only mouse in the building that it liked was the genuine IBM InfoWindow
II mouse.
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