New computer and monitor

Dale E Heath · 2024-11-23T18:45:06+00:00

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It's time to get a new windows 11 computer, which I've pretty much decided on. My question is the monitor. My current monitor is a flat 22". I think I'll stay with a single monitor, since I'm retired and not teaching or preaching any longer. Is a 27" too large? I'm also considering getting a curved vs flat. Is a 27" curved a good choice? Thanks for any opinions and suggestions.

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Doc B

You can't get 'too large.' The older you get, the bigger you'll want to expand the text so bigger is going to be better. I use a 32" and wish it was bigger. (But I can read my screen from across the room!)

My current 32" is curved…first one of these I've owned. I really like it, more so that it reduces glare than anything else.

Jonathan Bradley

I currently have two monitors and was eyeing a 37-inch ultra-wide curved monitor to replace them. I agree with @Doc B , you can't really get too large.

Antony Brennan

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1344326#Comment_1344326

Exactly, ”too large” is an oxymoron.

Jonathan Bradley

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1344343#Comment_1344343

The only time it would be considered too large would be if it didn't fit into your office….and that's when you know you need a bigger office. 😂

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1344348#Comment_1344348

The first computer I ever saw took up a room larger than a gymnasium. It was one of two tube computers I saw before transistors became the norm.

Antony Brennan

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1344359#Comment_1344359

My first computer was a on a raised floor in a giant glass room. The people who worked in the room had hairnets and white coats. We had large disks as big as LP Records which stored a massive 64kb of data. We had no output screens it was all printed out to long perforated sheets, but we had transistors.

Antony Brennan

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1344348#Comment_1344348

😂

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1344361#Comment_1344361

No screens but I suspect you could watch the lights … and slow the computer to one instruction at a time so you could debug what a memory dump didn't tell you. I followed the lights before sending the problem to New York, when the IBM technicians missed a deck of cards reloading the operating system leaving the FORTRAN compiler unable to handle any arithmetic operation.

Antony Brennan

Those were the days, when things were fun.

Frank Sauer

On the curved monitor part of the discussion - I will say that I really enjoyed the way Logos looked when I tested it out on my son's curved gaming monitor.

David Palmer

I have a 34" curved and I really love it. As long a you have sufficient desk space, I'd say bigger is better… especially as I've aged.

JJ Wurtz

I run it with 4 monitors. 29' Ultrawide and 3 27's. Next monitor I buy will be 34' or bigger curved..

Veli Voipio

I am looking forward to buy a wide curved monitor.

Currently having 32" flat and a couple of old monitors with the desktop.

The laptop has 3184x2400 pixels in a 16" screen and I am considering to buy a magnifying glass to read it. 😕

Donovan R. Palmer

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1344361#Comment_1344361

LOL! That reminded me that my first personal computer was a Commodore 64! Tech had moved on by that point. I loaded code with a tape drive. I still remember the big upgrade when I had saved my pocket money to buy my first floppy drive. It was almost as big as the computer!

NB.Mick

This thread warms my heart for being so young (not the monitor part, having switched lately from 24" flat to 32" curved and sometimes feeling it's too big to see everything at one glance, but then it helps so much with reading the small print of stuff people are sharing on MS teams…) - the first computer I could lay hands on was already a PC, a clone of the IBM PC by Italian company Olivetti. Monochrome, two 5,25" floppy disk drives and I think it already had a small 10MB hard disk, but memory may fail me there and this came later. MS-DOS 2.1 or such.

Frank Sauer

All the memories shared of first computers reminds me of the Tandy Color Computer

Dale E Heath

I was hired by IBM in 1958 and trained on the RAMAC Random Access Method of Accounting and Control in 1960. It was vacuum tubes and had a massive 10MB disk storage with 50 platters and the R/W heads were positioned by an air compressor. https://www.ibm.com/history/ramac

Antony Brennan

My first Personal computer wasn’t even a personal computer it was an Amstrad PCW9512, or some number like that. No hardrive. It had two floppy disc slots. One for the program and the other for storage. I loved that machine.

JJ Wurtz

My first computer was an IBM 8088 with a floppy drive. It was huge when we upgraded them memory with a 512K card. I also used to have one meg sipps memory chips. So glad they never stayed took on.

Also loved my PC Jr 😁that my dad paid extra for the phaser printer.

Frank Sauer

I remember learning to program with Basic on one of these

Donovan R. Palmer

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1344653#Comment_1344653

I haven’t seen one of those in years! In addition to the Commodore 64, I took a computer class that was based on the TRS-80. We had to write a simple computer game.