On 6/4/2010 10:21 PM, aemeijers wrote:
The Daring Dufas wrote:
On 6/4/2010 8:19 PM, aemeijers wrote:
N8N wrote:
On Jun 3, 8:15 am, wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 07:58:35 -0400, "Stormin Mormon"

wrote:
Since when is 24 to 32 inches "not too big"? Having grown up watching
a 13 inch black and white "GE Adventurer 1", I think your sense of
proportion is a bit much.
Go look at a 24 inch 16:9 widescreen TV and see what you think.

It's not very big at all compared to a 4:3 ratio 19 inch TV.

It's wider, but a LOT shorter vertically.

And an LCD is very thin and light; almost feels like a toy compared to
the TVs of yore.

I guess an equivalent size would be a 19" or 21" CRT and I remember
those not being particularly light. I still have an excellent Samsung
CRT monitor that I bought new back in the mid-late 90s. It'll
probably stay in my garage until I clean up and recycle it

nate

I feel your pain. I have about 6 or 7 perfectly good 17" CRT monitors
sitting in corners around here that I can't GIVE away. (Mostly
Trinitron- damn things Will Not Die.) I'm too much of a cheap SOB to
send working equipment to be demanufactured, and my long-dead EE
grandfather would haunt me if I did. All leftovers from a brief period
when it was possible to make a few bucks on the side buying used
commercial PCs in bulk, cleaning them up, and reselling them at half the
price of a new one. Moore's law bit me in the ass, and I am stuck with a
couple hundred bucks (my cost) of working PIII PCs that are essentially
worthless. One of these days I'll throw Ubuntu on the lot of them, and
put them on Freecycle, just to get rid of them. (Perfectly competent
e-mail terminals for people that can't get their kids off the 'real' PC
for five minutes.)


Have you ever tried to Linux the boxes and post them on Craigslist?

TDD

That is almost what I said- Ubuntu being a flavor of Linux, and
Freecycle being rather like CL, just with lowered expectations. (IOW,
getting it gone is more important than getting money.) I suppose I
should try CL first, and maybe the swap board at work as well.

At this point, I'd GIVE them to a good home, or only charge what they
are worth to me for parts. (Hey, an optical burner is worth
something...) Gotta keep the one with a 5.25 floppy drive in it, though-
still got a file drawer full of those, most of which are probably still
readable.

I really need a SWMBO to nag my sorry ass into actually finishing any of
the projects I start- it has gotten rather out of control. I'd need to
at least clean up the front room enough to not scare strangers before I
place the CL ads, so they don't run in terror when I open the door.


I have a lot of older computer gear that I hang on to because, believe
it or not, I have some customers who are still running DOS and certain
software simply because it works. The newfangled super fast motherboards
and CPU's are not compatible. People think I'm crazy for rescuing old
computers from the trash heap.

TDD