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einarsen:
This is really just a place to share my pain with folks who will understand.

A colleague at work has a father who used to maintain arcade equipment. When he found out I was converting an abandoned 1981 Taito cabinet to MAME he Chechens with his dad about parts.

Well, the sister had them in her basement and had put the arcade monitors (there were more than one) on the roadside for garbage collection.

The pain! The pain!

einarsen:
Darn autocorrect.

On iPhone and Chechens is supposed to be checking.

paigeoliver:
Multicade builders are trashing repairable 19" monitors left and right these days at the exact same time they are becoming much harder to come by.

ark_ader:
I'm surprised that they would allow collection of arcade monitors via conventional refuse collection, considering the legal issues around RoHS and WEEE.

I am finding out that people are sending such equipment to Salvation Army to get around the disposal charges.

We all know it end ups in China or India.  Better there than having mercury seeping into the water system via the local dump in any US town.

pbj:
Take it with a grain of salt.  I've heard so many "I JUST threw all that stuff away a couple of weeks ago" stories I quit believing them.

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