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.
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.
I still don’t know why we got rid of these. They were space-efficient and made a computer room look great.
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 :(
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.
I remember talking to coworkers at their desks, leaning over their CRTs and feeling the heat coming off them. Not the worst thing in the winter, but I hate to think how much more AC we burned through in the summer.
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.
I miss my corner desk so much. It’s not just leg room, it’s left and right storage. Take up a bulky corner. Looks better in a room. I’m surprised at the lack of corner computer desks in modern furniture.
This. I was actually looking for one recently, and the selection was terrible.
Yeah the selection was all antique for me. Sucks. I was determined to build my own. But then chose against it and succumbed to the norm
