[rescue] Old Monitors

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Tue Feb 13 15:47:14 CST 2018


On 02/13/2018 04:29 PM, Ian Frost wrote:
> I have a small number of old Sun monochrome monitors, which Ibve managed to
> keep working over the years despite a few capacitor blow outs, etc.
> 
> Ibd really like to get one of the old Sun 17/19b
 colour monitors from the
> early SPARC era - I had one but gave it away a decade or more ago.
> 
> So many of the the old CRTs seem to have been recycled - I wonder if anyone
> has one they would like to get rid off ?
> 
> I can collect of course - Ibm based near London.
> 
> Just out of interest - how many of these monitors are still around - anyone
> still using them ?

  We have three or four at LSSM, in preparation for the opening of the
third exhibit floor which includes workstations.  Those monitors have
become very difficult to find, due of course to people trashing them.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA


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