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LCD Displays That Fit In A 5.25" Drive Bay?

Posted by timothy on from the entrepreneurs-take-note dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "Several years ago, I saw several manufacturers that sold LCD displays that slid out of the 5-1/4" bay, flipped down, and allowed you to have a minimal monitor that stored in the case. Since it slid out and flipped down, that meant it easily fit into 1U and 2U rack mounted hardware. Now that I'm about to get charged beacoup bucks for having a monitor at the CoLo where I have my servers, I'm looking for something like this again. (SSH doesn't help with hardware and BIOS settings.)" Read on for some details on what he's looking for -- you may be after the same thing (or better yet, have such screens to sell).

"Yes, I have tried Google, but no one seems to be making these anymore. There's scads of links to projects where people mount their own LCD display vertically in 3 unused bays in a normal PC case, but I need something that will hide in a normal bay (just like a CD-ROM drive), and there obviously aren't 3 unused bays vertically arranged in a 2U rackmount case.

Anyone know of a manufacturer? Got an old model that works that you want to sell? I might even throw one in my car since then I could hide the display when I'm not using it, and it'd give me a minimal monitor for that SBC-based portable server I've been meaning to build, and it might be good enough to play some games on in a mini-portable system, etc., not to mention the sheer cool-factor."

4 of 87 comments (clear)

  1. Something different by addaon · · Score: 5, Informative

    This isn't at all what you want, but may work better for your purpose.

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    I've had this sig for three days.
  2. Liquid Crystal Display Display? by Euphonious+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Surely everybody reading this realizes that LCD stands for "Liquid Crystal Display". So, an LCD Display would be a Liquid Crystal Display Display.

    There might be one in your ATM machine ( Automatic Teller Machine machine) which you can look at while you poke in your PIN number (Personal Identification Number number), which it will store momentarily in its RAM memory (Random Access Memory memory).

  3. Dell has LCD/keyboard in 1U for $1400 by DanEsparza · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Dell has a 1U monitor/keyboard solution (that folds out) for $1400: http://www.dell.com/us/en/bsd/products/model_svrac _2_svrac_monitor.htm Dan

  4. This is what you were looking for.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.logitec.co.jp/products/monitor/lcmt041a .html