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Re: Should I stock up on CRT's...

CGA and EGA monitors are rare and expensive already, so are Atari and Commodore ones for the ST and Amiga. I have a few decent 17" CRT monitors and a couple smaller ones I got for free. You don't really need a high end 21" monitor if you are just going to play VGA games, just one with decent digital …

Re: Wow, Matrox is still around

in Milliways
Matrox also have a pro video division for video capture and editing plus they sold cards for medical devices (reading x-rays on a high res monochrome monitor for example). So they sold some hardware into high value areas. If I had to guess I would say a short lived boom in gaming cards was just …

Re: Guilt over trashing machines

in Milliways
The older OEM systems were built like tanks, new ones seem kind of cheap and flimsy. When you receive gear you don't particularly care about you can either find a use for them, gut them for parts and recycle the rest, or trade them for something you do want if possible. When I used to hit a local …

Re: You know what I miss? Computer Shopper

in Milliways
CS was great for the advertisements before we have the internet to look things up. I subscribed to the CS when it was a phonebook but tossed them all a few years later (they take up so much space). I used to mail order parts all the time using mail order catalogs pre internet.

Re: Confessions of a compulsive hoarder...

in Milliways
I am a hoarder I guess, the basement is packed with computer equipment (and a few laptops are in my room). The rest of the house and garage are pretty much computer free (I do have a ton of empty boxes in the garage waiting for a sell off of duplicates). Come spring half of this stuff has to go so I …

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