“Leading PC manufacturers dropping VGA support by 2015”

Technology marches on — and leaves laggards behind. One of my three remaining external monitors only has a VGA port; two others that I only got rid of earlier this year1 predated any kind of digital connector. Fortunately there are adapters. 🙂


1 I got rid of them only under protest. They were old desk-hogging CRT monitors, one2 of which was my first 17″ monitor, circa 1990. I wasn’t using them, but they still worked just fine, within their limitations, and I had fond memories of that older one. Despite this, my wife insisted that we get rid of them when we moved, and I had to reluctantly agree that I couldn’t foresee any circumstances when I might use them again.

2 It still had the OS/2 sticker that I’d proudly put on it when OS/2 2.0 was released. Yeah, I used OS/2, from its 2.0 release in mid-1992 until late 1995. During those years, it was a much better platform for writing DOS programs than DOS was, even with DESQview and QEMM (which I used for a long time before that).