"Charles Angelich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > I realize that few people will ever get rid of a working monitor, they > stockpile them in a closet but give away everything else including their > mouse. LOL
Those old HP and Sun units were VERY high quality, and can be comparable to a lower-end modern unit. I even have a hard time getting rid of broken monitors. I finally had do dump a beloved broken 15" Sony before my last move, and I had to give away that 19" HP fixed-frequency unit. I've still got 3 Trinitrons sitting on a shelf that I can't bring myself to unload. > [...] > The most significant piece of hardware for you, the human requiring an > interface, is your monitor. Money spent on an uptodate working LARGE > monitor is never money wasted or mis-spent [...] Definitely true. I always recommend quality monitors to friends and family, even when they cost more than the rest of the PC. Nothing's worse than staring at a cheap monitor for a few hours and trying to get the ol' eyes to focus again! And a quality unit can easily out-live a few generations of PCs if you "shop ahead" of basic requirements. I quite like the flat-panel LCDs, especially now that they're priced closer to CRTs. Lower power and space requirements are very appealing, and I do like the clarity they provide for text display. I'm not sure how well they'll do in the longevity department though. One probable use for one of those CRTs on my shelf will be connecting it to some sort of switch for some of my old SurvPre-PCs (Apple ][+, T/S1000). I've also got an old XT I want to have running. I'm hoping to easily and cheaply display composite video and CGA on a VGA monitor. - Bob To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
