On 7/15/2012 9:40 PM, gregz wrote:
The Daring Dufas wrote:
On 7/15/2012 9:33 AM, notbob wrote:
On 2012-07-15, Red Green wrote:

And I thought I was the last one... Must be a CT thing (OEM
Stamfordite)
:-)


p.s. and also a "-ski".

Nope. Lots of us.

Better yet, you can pick up decent box fer zero $$. Ppl can't give
'em away, anymore. Actually costs $$ to dispose of 'em. I haven't
paid for a computer in yrs. Granted, I'm not running the hottest
gamer box in town, but running Linux gets me what I need for nada.
Finally hadda kick out the jams and splurge fer an LCD monitor, no
CRTs lying around. My new Acer 23" is killer. I may join the 21st
century if I can find a decent box fer $200.

Oh yeah, two days ago a 17" CRT turned up, fer free. With 2 keyboards
and two mice. I passed.

nb


Back in 93 I paid $549.00 for my first 17" CRT monitor, the price was low
because I got dealer pricing. Remember when a 20mb hard drive was
cheap at $250.00? O_o

TDD

My first 15 inch monitor was $400. First 17 inch was $400. Still have it,
Gold Star.
it was around 1993 when I broke down and bought my first personal computer.

I saw monitors way back working at DEC in 1969. They were just starting to
get into desktop monitors, vs the big rack mounted devices, using light
pens.

At another workplace $2000 monitors were common in the 90's I worked on the
worlds highest resolution monitor, something like $15k. Sony bought the
company started by IBM, to stop making the product. I remember buying a
high speed hd, $2000 for something 1-2 gb. Thing ran too hot to touch.
Hitachi.

I'm glad I don't have to play much with hardware anymore, but the software
will kill you.

Greg


I have a pair of Nokia 21" .22 dot pitch CRT monitors that originally
cost $1,100.00 ea. On a big CRT, .22dpi is like looking at a film
projection. I got them for $600.00 because they were demonstrators and
the damn things weigh upwards of 80lbs each. I switched to larger LCD
screens some time ago which saves a lot of desktop space and back
strain. ^_^

TDD