[FRIAM] computer monitor

[Steve Smith]

Gil -

I have both e-mails and will ping you next time I expect to come to town 
and make a plan to drop off then... maybe as early as next Tuesday?

- Steve

On 8/25/22 1:42 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> Wowie zowie 😁 thank you so much steve! that would be fantastic!  
> Ironically CRTs  were kind of a head of their time. LEDs have run into 
> a wall with black colors of all things that the GPU has to work hard 
> to figure out where to place. Tech YouTubers talk about it something 
> to do with color space that you or the other steve probably know a lot 
> more how that works then I do. and yeah I'm also sometimes not as nice 
> to my electronics as I really should be.
> Do you have either my or Owens email? that way we figure out how make 
> arrangements for pickups or drop offs.
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 1:28 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
>
>     Gil -
>
>     I have gone past the use of external computer monitors in my own
>     life/work and have a total of 3 re-homeable units I could offer
>     you.   I don't have the specs on them in front of me, and I can't
>     guarantee their ruggedness, though I am not easy on most of my
>     gear and I have not damaged any of these beyond some surface
>     scratches.
>
>     I would be happy (ecstatic?) to gift forward one or more of them
>     to you, even it you go through them in a year or two's time the
>     same way the others gave out, as long as you made some effort to
>     push them forward into the appropriate recycling stream (not even
>     sure where old LCD monitors go to rot/recycle)?
>
>     A decade or more ago I used to cringe everytime I would see
>     another CRT TV or Monitor in an arroyo "shot up" by my
>     neighbors.... it has been years since I saw a fresh one...  and to
>     think we all used to sit inches (feet) in front of them staring at
>     them all day (esp. for those boomers who were babysat as children
>     by Captain Kangaroo and his ilk) as a high-energy electron beam
>     was directed straight toward their third-eye, depending on the
>     layer of phosphors (I don't know how carcinogenic those where when
>     released during wild target practice sessions) and *leaded* glass
>     to protect our precious little neuronal mass known as our brain.  
>     Oh well, most of us are "OK" and of course, it may well be the
>     *idea* flux coming out of them that was the most dangerous.
>
>         https://thehappyphilosopher.com/kill-your-television
>
>
>     Lemme know!
>
>      - Steve
>
>     On 8/25/22 12:49 PM, glen wrote:
>>     https://www.eizorugged.com/products/rugged-monitors/
>>
>>     On 8/25/22 11:32, Gillian Densmore wrote:
>>>     I have no had 3 hp monitors crack in the same way. Basically
>>>     something about how I get behind it. Usually to reboot my stupid
>>>     cable modem, the the dam things left, or right side cracks.
>>>     I think the problem is between my size and the thin fragility of
>>>     it is the problem. Best hunch I have so far.
>>>     Where do I find the good and propper computer monitors that
>>>     ignore this asinine industry delusion that paper thin=good?
>>>     Do really have to go as far back to CRTs to something that
>>>     doesn't fall over from just a fart? or is their something more
>>>     in at least this decade that's not a thin fragile POS?
>>
>>
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