Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: javeryh on September 17, 2004, 05:02:43 pm
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Tomorrow I can drive 45 minutes and take up to "about twenty" 15" monitors from a friend of mine who is in charge of closing down an office. They are getting thrown away otherwise
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when you say monitor, I assume PC monitor.
In this case, yes.. be a good husband and stay home. There's a reason why goodwill doesn't even want it. Here in Toronto, I can buy 17" refurbs for less than 100$ CDN.. 15" are given away almost for free. So don't worry about ever finding one in the future.
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be a good hubby and pleasure the wifey first then go get some :)
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15 inch monitors are almost not worth the trouble unless you have something specific in mind for them. At most, I would say pick up one or two. I guess you could use it for a multi monitor setup for your computers. I am planning on doing something similar with a wealth of 17 inchers i got recently. mount em around your computer station and you can have some extra desktop space. Anyways, use em, or forget em IMO.
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Honestly dude, count yourself LUCKY you have a throttle control on your habits! :)
My fiance pretty much lets me get whatever I want, and once I fill the house, she knows I'll have to add on.
As such, when I moved into my 1,700 sq foot house almost 5 years ago from a 600 sq ft apartment, I believe I moved in a total of TEN monitors in some shape or form. (25", 19", 13" TVs / 3 Commodore 13" composite monitors / 2 Apple 13" composite monitors / 19" and 15" Computer monitor)
Now, last winter when I last checked, if I include the monitors already installed in my 7 arcade cabinets, extra arcade monitors waiting to be fixed/built into a machine, the LCD panels on my computer and 2 notebooks, TV's in every room, bare tubes removed from dead TVs for swapping in arcade monitors, old Apple and Commodore monitors and even more misc parts, I believe i came up with a whopping 45 TUBES and 3 LCD panels. ( 2 TVs, 1 computer CRT and 1 notebook LCD inherited from my fiance)
Oh please, someone help me..... I can't let a good tube go to waste! (plus it costs too much to throw them)
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Well, I do need a 12 pin tube for my monitor. It has a milky haze over part of it. No idea how to test it for anything, though.
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Make 20 bartop arcade cabinets all with different themes :D
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Make 20 bartop arcade cabinets all with different themes
That's what I was thinking!
In Chattanooga (where I live), I found a storage building for $16/month. It's not climate controlled but it is dry and secure.
See if you can find one like that and you can store all the junk you want....that's what I do because our house is so small.
cb