John Carmack programmed for a 28 "FullHD monitor in 1995

The image above is a classic snapshot of John Carmack, which intensively programs some part of the engine of the legendary Quake2 game (the interface is similar to Visual Studio).

Most people look at a photo and see a very focused famous programmer. But if you look closely, you can see that the display he is looking at is absolutely gigantic. But the picture was taken in 1995, when LCD monitors just appeared on the market, and even the smallest LCD display was worth fantastic money.

Carmack's display is something completely special. This is a 28-inch model of Silicon Graphics / Integraph InterView 28hd96, and no LCD here and does not smell. Made on the technology of CRT box weighed 45 kg, with dimensions of 49.5 x 69.9 x 62 cm, and consumed about 180 watts!
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If you think that Carmack remade a large TV for the monitor, then you are mistaken. This is a full-fledged computer monitor, which had several important characteristics for Carmack. Most importantly, he kept a resolution of 1920 x 1080. That is, a resolution in which almost no games of that time could be launched.



The useful screen size is actually 25.9 ", and the maximum brightness is only 100 candela / m ^2. Despite this, such a monitor was an object of desire for many programmers and gamers of that time. For a regular user, this monitor costs about ten thousand dollars was too big.

Interestingly, if at that time Carmack had such a monitor, what does he use now? Probably several monitors, each has a 1080p resolution, and even all together they consume much less than 180 watts. [UPD: Carmack has already tweeted]

InterView 28hd96 Monitor Specifications