I fished a similar monitor out of a recycle bin recently, an NEC Multisync LCD 2080UX. 1600x1200, Dual VGA and Dual DVI ports, Landscape/Portrait swing stand, etc. Works fine, but is of 2003 vintage so you'll notice things like how much dimmer the backlight is compared to a new monitor. (Although I sort of like the "warm white" look of it compared to the electric blue-ish vibe of newer monitors.) One thing I do find a little disappointing about every "portrait" LCD I've tried is that the portrait mode is in software, IE, the monitor doesn't actually "scan top to bottom" when its rotated. That limits the portrait mode's usefulness to video cards that can maintain acceptable performance when displaying a rotated desktop. (Many older cards basically lose all acceleration and just behave like dumb framebuffers when using them in "portrait mode", assuming you have a driver that can do it at all.) This NEC is no different. It would be nice if being flipped over actually changed the "hardware geometry" of the unit so I could hack together a custom video mode to use the monitor in Portrait mode with, say, my old Sun Ultra 10. (Granted the video card in that would barely eek out 256 colors at full resolution.)

It is a little shocking to me that when that NEC monitor was new it cost somewhere in the $1600-$2000 ball park. It's astounding just how quickly LCDs got cheap.

I also agree with the grlf (Glucocorticosteroid-Resistant Lymphocyte Fraction?)... time to let the CRTs go. If you're keeping them in your house, well... figure each one is costing you about six cubic feet of breathing room. I dunno about you but I can think of more interesting ways to soak up that sort of space. You could justify keeping *one* around for old-tymey hardware hacking with systems that output video modes that LCDs won't cooperate with, but beyond that...