In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roy wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>In message ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Koenig Urs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >>15pin video lead (VGA-connector). >> >>Thanks for the tip of local waste/recycling organisations, but we are >>not looking for mixed brands/models. >Our local Technical College just replaced all its CRTs with TFTs. They >then had to scrap all their 15" and 17" CRTs - all perfectly usable. The >local YMCA charity shop would not take them and the council recycling >centre directed them to the Waste Electrical Goods Act approved >recycling centre They wanted to charge them £7.50 a monitor to dispose >of them. Since they had over 30 monitors this was a little expensive. >The Council also does not allow the school to sell these on to anyone in >case they get sued for faulty electric goods. We supplied the new TFTs >so I got to hear of this and now a few of my friends have better >monitors than they used to have. > >What a stupid way to go about things and another short sighted piece of >EU nonsense. Well, CRT's are definitely useful to all of those people running older systems. The problem is having the storage space ... The EU is no being stupid about this as there is an environmental hazard in all this technological stuff. >Oh and Darren, more and more manufacturers of CRT monitors are >announcing they will stop making them. Seems they will soon die out >completely. In science fiction they had flat screens, etc, years ago ... :-) -- Malcolm Cadman _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
