Widescreen Sat Nav.

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On 27 Nov, 15:27, foghollow wrote:
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On 27 Nov, 15:05, August West wrote:
foghollow writes:
The ICL Perq had a page-shaped screen.

Some did, and some didn't. Actually, most did, as it was the cheaper
option. A4 portrait, A3 landscape. Both paper white. I used to have
one of each. Very nice screens, until the flyback blew.

Strangely, didn't catch on.

I don't think it was the scren that was the problem, though.

Remember too that VDU terminals to mainframes existed long before
any office app was dreamt up.

My memory of the glass TTYs is that they were somewhat squarer than TV
tubes.

Nope, still 4:3.
http://www.lions-wing.net/lessons/hardware/3270-01.jpg

Doc

That's not the ops console of a CDC Cyber 175 though, is it?
It's not a Tektronix 4015, either.

IBM 3270 terminal . Takes me back 20 years in an instant. I used to
work all day on one of these things.

Doc

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"August West" wrote

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Xerox 860.
Black-on-white A4 (ish) screen in portrait orientation, auto-zoom
(letters went bigger when you edited already-entered text)

Still just a glorified typewriter, though. And the PERQ's screen was
larger. And, if you were running the POS operating system, you got a
little bee flying around the screen when it was "busy". Much better
than a stupid hourglas. And all back in '82, too! Although that was
made by 3RCC, before ICL had started rebadging them in the UK.

STFU, grandad.

Who are you???

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"ChrisM" wrote

Still just a glorified typewriter, though. And the PERQ's screen was
larger. And, if you were running the POS operating system, you got a
little bee flying around the screen when it was "busy". Much better
than a stupid hourglas. And all back in '82, too! Although that was
made by 3RCC, before ICL had started rebadging them in the UK.

STFU, grandad.

Who are you???

Someone who had long forgotten the busy bee.

"Willy Eckerslyke" wrote in message
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Perhaps the next generation ones should be squarescreen?

Nah, they should have screens at all. Just a data projector on the roof
that projects a big, red arrow onto the road for you to follow.

You can't have red light on the front - it's illegal.

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bof wrote:
I was annoyed by my 16:9 laptop screen when I first got it, but prefer
it now to a 4:3.

And wouldn't it be nice if most of the wide-screen laptops _were_ 16:9 -
so 16:9 movies used all of the screen - sadly they're mostly 16:10.

I've noticed that some cheap LCD TVs are 16:10 as well - crazy given
their use, but I guess that's the cheapest way to produce a TV using an
LCD intended for the computer use.

Mark

Lord Turkey Cough wrote:

Who in their right mind would want one of these?
What possible advantage is there is being able to
see more in one direction than the other?
Obviously the answer is none, so why do people
buy them, is it simply because they are brainwashed by
the word widescreen?

Is that all you can find to whine about? How about all the useless
bloatware on the device. Do you need a currency converter (that doesn't
work unless you deal in dollars), Slide Show viewer, etc on satnav?

I'd be more impressed if they did things like letting you set the zoom
level and view you want, give the option of portrait or widescreen
(using a sensor like the iPod touch/iPhone) and provide a configurable
screen layout so that it's possible to see speed, time to destination,
turn ahead, and preerably a nice little icon o the roundabout showing
which exit since counting them sometimes doesn't work (I say there's an
unused exit or entrance to a private industrial estate.)

See this is where your whining/trolling is second rate, you don't put
enough thought into either.

"Steve Firth" wrote in message
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Lord Turkey Cough wrote:

Who in their right mind would want one of these?
What possible advantage is there is being able to
see more in one direction than the other?
Obviously the answer is none, so why do people
buy them, is it simply because they are brainwashed by
the word widescreen?

Is that all you can find to whine about? How about all the useless
bloatware on the device. Do you need a currency converter (that doesn't
work unless you deal in dollars), Slide Show viewer, etc on satnav?

I'd be more impressed if they did things like letting you set the zoom
level and view you want, give the option of portrait or widescreen
(using a sensor like the iPod touch/iPhone) and provide a configurable
screen layout so that it's possible to see speed, time to destination,
turn ahead, and preerably a nice little icon o the roundabout showing
which exit since counting them sometimes doesn't work (I say there's an
unused exit or entrance to a private industrial estate.)

See this is where your whining/trolling is second rate, you don't put
enough thought into either.

I don't even have one so thats immaterial.
And anyway why are you whining, if you were daft enough to
buy a US model u only av urself to blame.

If the Ipods screen was a sensible shape in the first place u would
not need to fart about with it.

Lord Turkey Cough wrote:

"Steve Firth" wrote in message
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Lord Turkey Cough wrote:

Who in their right mind would want one of these?
What possible advantage is there is being able to
see more in one direction than the other?
Obviously the answer is none, so why do people
buy them, is it simply because they are brainwashed by
the word widescreen?

Is that all you can find to whine about? How about all the useless
bloatware on the device. Do you need a currency converter (that doesn't
work unless you deal in dollars), Slide Show viewer, etc on satnav?

I'd be more impressed if they did things like letting you set the zoom
level and view you want, give the option of portrait or widescreen
(using a sensor like the iPod touch/iPhone) and provide a configurable
screen layout so that it's possible to see speed, time to destination,
turn ahead, and preerably a nice little icon o the roundabout showing
which exit since counting them sometimes doesn't work (I say there's an
unused exit or entrance to a private industrial estate.)

See this is where your whining/trolling is second rate, you don't put
enough thought into either.

I don't even have one so thats immaterial.
And anyway why are you whining, if you were daft enough to
buy a US model u only av urself to blame.

If the Ipods screen was a sensible shape in the first place u would
not need to fart about with it.

You really don't understand much, do you? I don't own an iPhone and the
iPod touch, which I also don't own isn't anythign like the standard
iPod. OTOH I have had a play with both and the UI is very good and works
as described.

Try thinking once in a while.

Lord Turkey Cough wrote:
"Steve Firth" wrote in message
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See this is where your whining/trolling is second rate, you don't put
enough thought into either.

I don't even have one so thats immaterial.

A thought? I think we all spotted that.

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