Comments on: Migrating Monitors

By: Greg Kennedy

Greg Kennedy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:05:26 +0000

You got a free bicycle?

By: shadow

shadow — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:37:45 +0000

Keep going to the auctions, I still have the jukebox (not the monitor anymore) so apparently there’s 2 of us that thought they were a good idea at the time. Never had a reason for a spare keyboard although I could use a good ‘d’.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:39:22 +0000

In an interesting twist, the “Oklahoma Foundation for the Disabled” said (once they arrived) that they don’t take computer equipment and left everything, including a giant box of stuffed animals, a sack of kid clothes and a practically new bicycle.

Guess I’ll eventually have to get that stuff off the front porch. Anyone want a monitor?

By: Dave Farquhar

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:31:59 +0000

No joke about the heaviness. True story: In 1998, I took a job doing desktop support. Long story behind that. The standard-issue monitor was 17 inches, which was actually pretty big at the time. At my previous job, I had a 15-incher on my desk. A couple of big shots got 20- or 21-inch monitors. There wasn’t anyone else around, so I hoisted a monitor up onto a cart, then wheeled it up, tried to hoist it onto his desk… and threw my back out. I had to go to the chiropractor the next day because I could barely move.

You are correct that a monitor was heavier than a CRT TV of the same size. I suspect they put more lead in a monitor, to protect the user since you tend to sit a lot closer to a monitor than you do with TVs.

Last week at Costco I watched someone carry a 32-inch LCD TV out the door on his shoulder, balancing it with one hand. We still have a 32-inch CRT TV. It takes two people to move that beast.

By: John

John — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:43:17 +0000

If you still goy keyboards I could use a 100 or so :) Im serious! Oh and I still a couple of 21′ also just hate pitch them.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:52:04 +0000

Mom, if the monitors are still there, they’re all yours. I will drop them off tonight.

By: Christina

Christina — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:22:43 +0000

What’s funny is until this year, we were always desperate for large CRT’s at work with at least a 120Hz refresh rate for doing OpenGL stereo viewing. Alas, LCD’s have finally managed a substitute (Zalman), and I can reclaim an entire desk!

By: Zeno

Zeno — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:14:04 +0000

I’m still holding on to a single 21″ CRT (made all the way back in 1991!) as a backup in case the 19″ in my MAME cabinet ever gives up the ghost. Otherwise if I never see another one of those beasts again that will be perfectly fine with me.

By: Mom

Mom — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:47:07 +0000

I saw a really cute idea for used CRT cases. You can make kitty beds out of them. Quick, go bring them back in. lol