Sometimes I check the recycling area near my flat - sometimes it has broken printers, sometimes broken LCDs sitting outside of it, I can't get at the insides of that bin but I still like checking outside it for large stuff - you never know...
Yesterday I decided to go check it on the way home and found a Dell D1025HE 17" trinitron CRT - I bought one of these years ago because they were cheap decent trinitrons in 2002, then sold it to a friend in town. I'm hopeful it's the same one?
I had to stop and catch my breath twice while walking back because it was heavier than I was expecting - I should've just gone home and got the hand cart 😁
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So odd that I keep finding Dells, the XPS D233 it's sitting on was also a random find that I won the auction for at 99p (though I paid the seller more than that)
There was something rattling around inside it, which turned out to be the magnet of a transformer inside that had come unglued when it was placed on the ground - I sort of wish I had read up on how to open a monitor a bit more first... I was tired...
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The display of it is pretty great, though I think there are some weird issues and maybe convergence issues that I haven't looked into much yet - seeing the inside of the monitor, it's not something I want to work to fix.