17" CRT - Worth Keeping?

----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Duell" <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 4:01 PM Subject: Re: 17" CRT - Worth Keeping? Sure sometimes you have to do it, but most times probably not. I haven't bothered looking too deeply into the Tandy CM-5 because I have a working (and better dot pitch) CM-11. Currently I do have working Amiga monitors so I didn't see the need to pay for a broken NEC 3Ds. By specialty I mean there are other people who know how to fix that kind of stuff better and I might have something they need in trade. Sometimes for commodity items swapping out a part is just easier and cheaper then fixing the old one. I have fixed TV's and LCD monitors before, mostly because the item was free, figuring out what was wrong was not that hard, parts were cheap, and I needed the unit for something and didn't want to go buy a new one. I will go out of my way to fix an older system (68K mac for example) but I don't like messing with CRT monitors.