Monitors
About Monitors
A Monitor is simply your display screen. The TV-Looking device that you are currently looking at. Unless you are referring to monitoring programs that monitor levels of usage and etc, in which case, I recommend a CPU monitoring system.
The first computer display devices were modified typewriters and Teletype machines. These devices were slow, noisy, and expensive, and could only handle text. For graphic output, an X-Y plotter, a device that pulled a pen over a piece of paper, was used. It shared all the problems of the Teletype machine.
It did not take long before these mechanical machines were replaced with electronic counterparts. The replacement was called a terminal. It consisted of a typewriter-like keyboard, which activated switches, and a display screen, which was a modified television receiver. Thus, the first computer display device was a cathode ray tube or CRT.