Mark M wrote:

Ken, good quality CRTs are going for next to nothing on eBay and
just about everywhere else. With a little searching (e.g. company
moving/going out of business/etc sales are great for this) you should
be able to knock that $250 down to under $100. Trying to increase
the bandwidth on your existing CRT will cost MUCH more in
component cost and soldering time.


There are literally tons of free, good used monitors out there for
the asking. I picked up seven of them last Thursday at one place. They
were the last items from this year's upgrades. That office maintains a
little over 1000 PCs all over the county, and replaces 200 older working
systems every year, along with some upgrades. I requested 100 complete
computer systems from next years upgrades and was told they would call
me when they started again in the fall.



One of the monitors I picked up is a HP 1130 Professional Monitor
which is a 21" monitor:

Featuring cutting-edge FD Trinitron® technology, the HP p1130 CRT
monitor delivers the ultimate in image quality and user comfort. With
resolutions up to 2048 x 1536 and no image flicker, this monitor is
ideal for graphics-intensive applications including desktop publishing,
design, engineering, software development, image processing, and digital
content creation as well as general office applications such as
spreadsheets and presentations.

(The above excerpt from the HP website file: hpP1130DataSheet.pdf)

BTW: It also has a second video input and front panel switch to use
it with two computers or video cards. I will be using it to write code
on so I can display more information at once.





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Michael A. Terrell
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