Why no 3 line LCDs ???

Ogbyte · Post by **Ogbyte** » Mon May 20, 2002 7:22 am

Just been wondering, as most 4 lines won't fit into a single 51/4" drive bay (Lian-Li PC60) and the 2 line ones are therefor the only ones left, would it be possible to produce a 3 line display?

Thereby getting something that should? fit into the 51/4" slot, and getting an extra line of text

What you say MO guys

regards
Ogbyte

Post by **Cheese** » Mon May 20, 2002 9:50 am

Umm no one makes lcd's for the specific prupose of putting them in a pc bay... it's just finding the best one that fits.

Mo don't product the lcd's themselves, just the controllers

r.

Post by **Henry** » Mon May 20, 2002 8:55 pm

aside from the PC Bay insert market, I don't belive there is a market for 3 lines displays...

Ogbyte · Post by **Ogbyte** » Tue May 21, 2002 1:14 am

Hmmm, maybe they should then - there could be a demand - just nobody has asked

Thanks for the replies guys

Ogbyte

Psychodaemon · Post by **Psychodaemon** » Mon Jun 10, 2002 1:19 am

use a graphics lcd and use a charset that fills the screen with 3 rows only?

Post by **Henry** » Mon Jun 10, 2002 9:03 am

You could do that...

Post by **Cheese** » Mon Jun 10, 2002 10:32 am

122x32, you'd need a 10 pixel high font, then a width of 8 would only give you 3x15 - I think the standard 4x20 is a lot better

Nothing stopping you though, anything is possible with lcdc, buy the glk-12232-25-sm, put it in a sinlge bay and play

r.

Thlayli · Post by **Thlayli** » Wed Jun 26, 2002 3:12 pm

Hrm, probably computer science/engineering people that count in powers of 2... So, there should be 2,4,8,16,32 etc line LCDs available, with the number of spaces on each line also being a power of 2. Ok, not quite, most of them have 20 or 40 spaces on a line, but it was a good theory while it lasted.