Today, two separate folks came by and bought the two 19″ CRT computer monitors that we were selling on CraigsList. It’s depressing to sell something for $20 that you bought for $600 a few years ago. Still, I consider myself somewhat lucky as friends have told me that they couldn’t even give theirs away. We are almost CRT-free. Our one remaining CRT is the 27″ television in the living room. We are hoping at some point to get an HDTV (another future post – TiVo, hurry up and release the HD TiVo!), though we will probably keep the 27″ TV and put it in the bedroom.
Anyway, the two CRT computer monitors are gone and we will now be using a single Samsung SyncMaster 204B 20.1″ LCD monitor, which we are very pleased with – nice sharp picture and very adjustable. I bought a Belkin USB/VGA KVM switch today at Central Computer, but haven’t had a chance to try it out yet. That undoubtedly will be a future post.
Indeed, getting shot of an old CRT is not easy. I managed to get mine moved by keeping an eye out for folks with old systems. I managed to find someone running a 14″crt on their system so while I was out doing a repair for them I made sure I had the 17″ in the car 😉
“Here you go, one fixed system m’dear. Oh, incidentally here’s a new monitor to go with it, yours for £0” No more pile of monitors in the garage and a happy neighbour.
Nice trick, chimpoid! I consider myself fortunate then that I was able to get 20 US dollars for each of mine. That 40 bucks almost pays for the KVM switch to let us use two computers with the new flat panel.