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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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[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Until I get a nice computer to pair with it (that is, not my Linux server), this just felt right to do with it

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

my win11 (a necessity, not a choice) box at the office drives a 17in trinitron crt running at 1600x1200

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

Needs to be 3.11 skifree