New subject: [personal] Re: Stanford's PDP-6 ( was Re: Hardware Hobbyists vs. EmulatorJockeys)

19 Jun 2009

--- On Fri, 6/19/09, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:

...
  Would any of 
 the list members now take it on themselves to accumulate
 all of the 
 Pentium I PCs that they could get their hands on?  How
 about CRT 
 monitors? 
I collect old CRT monitors. Primarily early workstaion monitors, monochrome monitors,
unusual monitors and early VGA monitors. I collect them to go with the old computers I
collect. I hate using old iron with new monitors. Doesn't seem right somehow. And, I
have a real hatred of LCD monitors. CRT's have much better picture, IMHO.

...
  For my part, today I'm taking a fixed-frequency
HP
 workstation 
 monitor down to the recyclers.  It's a nice unit, but
 it's large and 
 heavy and an LCD gives a better display.  No point to
 keeping it at 
 all. 
You shouldn't scrap that! For one, that's exactly the kind of monitor I've
been looking for for a long time now, and for two - it's important to preserve this
kind of hardware. I mean, sure, you _can_ use an LCD with an old HP workstation, but would
you want to? Not exactly accurate, if you ask me.

-Ian