LG makes reasonably good electronics today. To be honest, if there was a problem with this multiple scan display, it was probably just that it was 1) a multiple scan, which was Apple's cheap brand of monitors anyway, and 2) that it was a CRT, and finding really good CRTs is uncommon.
The later version of the Multiple Scan 15 I had was fine. I honestly wish I had another, I forget exactly what happened to it, but I know I had an MS1705 a little later on that had to be recycled due to space constraints.
Dare I say it. Goldstar is todays LG.... and nothing much has changed on that front...
In a way
Goldstar literally is LG, it was merged into LG at the start of the 2000s.
Oh, and since we're going down this track, I think I'll say it: what do people think of Dell in the last 16 years?
Dell in general or Dell's monitors?
I've had pretty much nothing but good experience with Dell over the last 16 years, both personally and professionally. Most of Dell's missteps in that time have been missteps that the entire industry had done, sometimes even Apple (capacitor plague, anyone?) but outside of a few things where Dell was really producing at the par quality for the time, usually with PC laptops, they build pretty good stuff.
Most of my experience is with their servers, displays, and business desktops/laptops, but I've bought a few consumer desktops from them as well (one in 2008 and the other in 2011) and had a good experience with those systems. The amount of junk software loaded on those systems was minimal and the build quality was good enough for the price. (Of course, it's very hard to mess up a desktop, so that helps a lot.)
Laptops: I personally tend to choose Lenovo ThinkPads. My "main" laptop is still a Thinkpad T400. Main may be stretching it a little bit. The system I carry with me is a Surface 3, and the system I game on is an HPQ6200 with a graphics card added, but the T400 is where all of my licensed commercial software is, should I need to build a Visio chart, and it's where my photo library is. I'll eventually need to move the photo library to something a little faster.
Every Dell display I've had (save one) has just been great. That one was reliable and good. Not great, merely good, but it was an LCD that probably sold for $200 or so in like 2004, so, so I don't think anybody was expecting it to be really great.
I've had a Dell Trin, that was pretty nice too, although Dell's better CRTs were all basically Sonys.
That kind of thing has been common in the computing industry for... basically as long as computers have been common, as far as I can tell. To this day, it's not like Apple or Dell or HPQ or any other $COMPUTER_OEM is manufacturing its own LCD panels, for example.
