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Post #4 by Trash80toHP_Mini
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateWed, 9 Sep 2009 - 20:31
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/living-in-an-os-9-x-adb-serialmac-world.18509/
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You mean like the one in the middle?
BTW, NICE piccie, NICER Collection! I can't wait to see it on a monitor a tad bigger than 10.1" though. =8-\

Is that the iMac-on-a-Tripod lookin' CRT or the, later, LCD version? I'm stalking the CRT . . . }:)

. . . two of the B&W ones, and one graphite. One B&W one is a little flaky (works fine for half an hour or so, then the picture slowly fades away over the course of the next half hour.) The dark blue is totally dead. The second B&W and the graphite work perfectly. Although as you can see, the B&W is noticeably dimmer than the others. This was partly just the way it was, and partly probably that it's older and more worn than the graphite.
I used mine as my primary display on my desktop computer for quite a few years, including on a PC. Unfortunately, for some reason, it doesn't work through a KVM I have.
I haven't worked on anything less than a 19" B&W Panasonic at 21" resolution since about 1987 . . . [;)] ]'>

I wish I still had it, cuz it was nice and shallow, as compared to a Color CRT. I was saving it for a MacQuarium hack, but it went away with most the Macs that had made the cut for my uprooting from the Big Apple. I moved to the nicest small town in NC and lost my storage room during my first hospitalization. Five years later I'm unpacking all the stuff that just happened to be in my apartment, which my parents saved for me and the town has been gentrified (read: RUINED!) and is now . . .

. . . surrounded by the sprawling cancer of suburban hell.

The big thing is to make sure you get a power brick. These boogers have their power connection 'reverse' from normal. Instead of the brick having a wire that plugs into a socket on the monitor, the monitor has a wire that plugs into a socket on the brick. (And the other side of the brick has a standard PC power connector; so when disconnected from both monitor and wall, the brick has no wires at all sticking out.)
Does the CRT have a lump-on-a-rope too? BLEEEECH!!!!!!!!! :p I may just avoid that Bondi Blue (?) POS I spotted in that case!

Bruegger's is closing so I've gotta sign off for now, thanks for the quick reply!

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