[rescue] where have all the Sun monitors gone?

velocityengine at gmail.com velocityengine at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 03:19:46 CDT 2007


On 6/25/07, Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 10:05:18PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
> > I just dumped a 21" Sun monitor in south London because I couldn't
> > convince anybody to haul it away.
>
> We discarded around 50 19"-21" workstation tubes (SGI, Sun) about a year
> ago because nobody wanted them and everyone had LCDs.  A year and a half
> before that, we threw out at least that many in the Austin office for the
> same reason, after selling the best of the lot at an employee auction.
>
> Monitors that I would have given body parts for, five years ago, are now
> not worth my time and effort.
>
>
>

Cripes, I wish more of you guys lived near Milwaukee. I have such a drought
of decent / free / cheap hardware here it's embarassing. I'd love to have
more 21" + monitors or the $5 UltraSparcs everyone else seems to have access
to.

*sigh*



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