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Who Still Uses Old Monitors?

Posted by Cliff on from the old-doesn't-mean-useless dept.

skurrier asks: "Reading the comments for a totally unrelated article, an almost off topic post caught my eye: Someone said that they still had a Sun branded Sony GDM class monitor from way back, and (of course) it rocked then and still rocks. (Sorry, can't find the article, yet alone the comment) As I looked across my desk to that similar Sun branded Sony behemoth plugged into my PC I asked myself: How many people still use ancient monitors? And more importantly, what is the oldest monitor you still use regularly?"

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  1. Pff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Young whippersnappers! I'm still using a dot-matrix printer for a display, and I like it that way!

    1. Re:Pff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Bah. Back in my day we just have rows of wires sticking out of the box. We didn't even have any bulbs for them, you'd have to work out what was high by putting it into your mouth and seeing if you got a shock...

  2. I have a 12" Wang by vipw · · Score: 5, Funny

    I really think the subject says it all.

    Seriously though, it's real. It has a vga connector and can do 640x480 in 4 glorious shades of gray.

  3. I use an Apple III monitor from 1983 by John+Harrison · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I have an Apple III monitor, built in 1983 that I have rewired to use as a analog visualization device on my home stereo. Don't try this at home! I have had a monitor of a different brand start smoking after doing this. I basically cut the wires leading to the coils at the back of the CRT tube so that they no longer get a signal from the board. Then I routed the stereo wires through them, left for horizontal and right for vertical. It makes fancy green images on my screen.

    I have also written a little WinAmp pluggin to demo the effect, since you can't download my old monitor. It is here. Go into the Preferences panel, select Plug-ins, then Visualization. Select the vis_text.dll pluggin and then in the drop-down box at the bottom select Strange.

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  4. Re:Tandy by Wog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hahaha

    Commodore. Poke around. Ha ha.

    sigh...