Well these are two 21" CRTs, so they aren't exactly "big", just a heckuva lot of pixels in a small space. (I love small text). Flat screen, refresh rate high enough to not have any visible flicker no matter how hard you try. And colors that beat any LCD to the ground. They were meant for people who do photoediting in their time, but as a gamer, I can fully appreciate the quality, and as a broswer, the resolution.

While they may not have been targeted towards average consumers, they were free to buy them. The same is the case with 30" 2560x1600 monitors these days. While they are in many ways inferior to my CRTs, they are the only thing easily available today for a random consumer. They cost from 1000 dollars to 3500 dollars. That's the highest single screen resolution you can get as a consumer on the market today. Oriented towards photo editors and video editors of course, but everyone can appreciate the quality of good displays, and are free to buy such monsters if they can afford it.