Good Buy...?? Please help

[Firebat138]

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Can someone confirm this is a good buy or not...Thanx...  Any dangers with it being open ...etc...  Thanx

Camper

[Jack Burton]

Look like an alright piece of equipment.  You may want to found out what the sync range on that monitor is before you commit to buying it.

[Firebat138]

Cool...  What should it be?  Can you educate me a little?  :-)

[Kevin Mullins]

What should it be? 

Depends on what you want it to do.

I would also have the seller verify what size it is...... even they question if it's a 25" or a 29".
That a huge difference when it come to mounting.
Have them post the TUBE numbers from the sticker on the back of the tube.

[MonMotha]

I don't think that monitor is capable of standard res (CGA), which makes it next to useless for most arcade games.  It's NOT the normal switchable CGA/EGA that Konami loved to use around that time, and I know some other games on the hardware Keyboard Mania ran on from that timeframe were in fact VGA, so it probably is a VGA monitor.

I don't think the seller knows much more about it.

If it follows the same numbering scheme as other Toshiba monitors from that timeframe, it is in fact a 29" (27" USA) monitor.  They tend to be pretty nice, but if it's VGA only, you won't be running 99% of games in native resolution on it.

[Jack Burton]

Firebat, what sort of games do you prefer playing?

If you are into the new school of fighting games and shooters this will be a good monitor as it can do 640x480p if it is a VGA monitor?

[Ummon]

Well, you can do this

Cool...  What should it be?  Can you educate me a little?  :-)

<in bold baritone and vibrato> MO-NI-TOR WI-KI-I-I-I-I-I-I.  If no numbers bring anything, you could ask them to measure the damn diagonal of the tube.