This is included here to give you an idea why I'm such a panoramic enthusiast. My computer setup doubles as a panoramic painting/photo placeholder to decorate my room when I'm not using the computer.
Three 21" Viewsonic G220fb CRT monitors. 1280x1024 resolution per monitor for a total of near 4000 pixels and four feet horizontaly. The box is an AMD 2800 with 2.5GB Corsair XMS RAM, an nVidia geForce4 ti4600, a Seagate 200GB 8MB cache hard drive, and two 40GB 8MB cache Western Digital hard drives RAIDed together.