[FRIAM] computer monitor

[Gillian Densmore]

That'd be fantastic! thank you very much!

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 5:23 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

> 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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