| There were a handful lesser known brands at that size, as well. I remember we went 16" when 'it was incredibly rare to see anything other than 14" screen sizes.' Honestly, I can't remember what the brand was, but I don't think it was the NEC. I remember I had sold a few 16" displays and had liked a cheaper model well enough to save the money. We tended to value larger monitors with higher resolutions at home (Dad had spreadsheets and AutoCAD), so we went through a few -- plus, at one point, "I worked at CompUSA" and it was hard to get them as cheap as "employee discount"[0] as a small-time re-seller. But the huge deals, IIRC, were with the "strange vendor" -- the Nokia Display -- that was a huge solid Trinitron tube, the largest sporting a slightly higher refresh rate than ... anything else. But they have a hard time selling because "Who's Nokia Display?" As this was pre-"digital mobile phone service" -- the "pagers are cool" days -- it was often "Nokia Who?". If you could catch the vendor when they swung by and grabbed the right form, they'd let you buy the top-of-the-line for like 75% off[1] which was substantially less than "employee discount." I know I picked up a monitor, a scanner and a US-Robotics modem, cheap, that way. :) [0] We were told this was "cost" -- and that wasn't completely out of left field. I had a re-seller agreement with some of the same distributors and got worse pricing, pretty consistently, than I could get as an employee. [1] Either in the form of "do this and ..." ("spiffs") or just "we'll give you a discount on exactly one" and depending on the vendor, this was "mail us a bunch of sh!t" and "we'll ship you one" or "we'll mail you a rebate check equivalent to the difference from what you paid" (assuming you paid MSRP or less). And make sure you make copies of everything :). |