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Speaking of "extremely high resolution on a really cheap monitor," it took a solid decade and a half before I was able to buy a digital flat-panel monitor capable of resolution comparable to the analog CRT I was using in 2002. VGA was no joke!
(The only problem with QXGA on a 19" CRT, aside from the weight and power draw, was that in a world before decent high-DPI fractional scaling the text was too tiny to read easily. Other than that, it worked fine.)
Yeah, same here. I had three 21" trinitrons with a max res of 2046 × 1536. I did finally move to LCD monitors when I was able to get something close (1920x1200), but I still miss those things. Except for the massive weight, space, power draw, and heat they put out of course.
Oh man, I'm jealous. I only had two 19" monitors, and they didn't match. I've still got them stored in the basement for eventual use in a retro game cabinet or something, but I'm kicking myself for not swapping them out for Trinitrons when everybody was throwing them out.
I got mine from a guy that had pallets of them and was selling them for cheap because he got them from an action. I definitely lucked out.
I have a flat panel from the early 2000s with a resolution of 1600x1200. I use it for old consoles because it also has an s-video input.
The last part reminded me of a night my friends and I played Dead Rising on a CRT. Couldn't read any text so we were just guessing what to do