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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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[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 4 days ago

It's quite amazing he continued using it up to the 2010s

Yeah I'm surprised it lasted that long. He never used the internet or mobile phones and the Windows 3.1 PC was probably the only piece of modern-ish technology he used.