robb wrote:

i have not looked at new monitors much but this one is nice has 15 pin and
RGB/HD inputs and can display up to 1600 x 1200 at all sorts of refresh
rates it was a great, bright , flat screen monitor with antiglare coating
lots of screen adjustment settings, adjustable cathode temp ? that came from
an old DEC 3000 graphics workstation ....


Sounds a bit like my 1994 Iiyama. I changed it for a 17" LCD monitor
last year. As I had a dual head display card I set them up next to each
other, and the difference was amazing. Even allowing for the different
technology, 11 or 12 years is a very long time in the life of a CRT,
as I saw! LCDs are inherently free of geometry distortions and focus
problems. My Iiyama had a very slight residual barrel distortion that I
was never able to get rid of.