Nope, not junk! If you have the room and don't mind 640x480, (games don't usually need any more pixels than that) that's a great monitor for a time capsule setup, just not a setup KVM'd to anything but an early mac that talks fixed resolutions. I won't touch anything less than 800x600 if I can possibly help it.

The form-fitted Pizza Box Toppers are notable exceptions:

http://www.everymac.com/monitors/apple/classic_monitors/specs/apple_mac_12_rgb.html

http://www.everymac.com/monitors/apple/classic_monitors/specs/apple_mac_12_mono.html

These two have the same miserable resolution as the Compact Macs, just in low depth color/grayscale and stretched across more real estate.

But they're cute as all hell! :approve:

Most Macs aren't going to talk to the widescreen monitor you mentioned. Stick to 4:3 or 4:5 aspect ratios. A high quality 16" or 17" multisync CRT is almost a requirement for troubleshooting video in vintage computer collecting, IMHO.