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Last week I made a post asking if I should buy an old vintage monitor.

Well, I went back to the recycled goods store this week and it was still there, so $30 later I have it, and it seems to just work*

There's very little about this monitor on the internet, so I'm thinking of documenting as much as I can about it, especially as it's Osborne branded so there could be some interesting history behind it.

* The power button is stuck on, and it does an occasional unsettling arc sound and the image slightly distorts for a millisecond. I believe the latter is fairly common among old CRTs but I don't know much more than that.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Bruh this would have been the most bad-ass website on the internet in 1998.

The closest thing we had at the time was Craigslist missed connection.

We made do.

[–] Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

We had IRC and AIM but it just wasn’t the same.

We searched yahoo and lycos. We asked Jeeves. We had it all.