It's the first step in relocating to the mirror universe? If so, I just may be on board with this...
mysticgreg
joined 2 years ago
Right Said Fred got nuthin on Spud
I've been without a working CRT for far too long, it's time! Of course the PC I'll connect to is currently running an IDE spinning rust disk with an OS installed from floppy disk, because I'm a ~~glutton for punishment~~ stickler for authenticity :D
Next mission is to find a monitor for C64 duties (because oh my god do LCDs destroy the output from one of those no matter what you try and feed it through!)
Yessss, another one! Congrats!!
These are all awesome recommendations, I'll see what I can organise! You are a legend :)
Nah degauss is all good and gives a nice satisfying clunk (I lurrrve a good degauss lmao). Not getting any kind of a picture to need it!
I'm up at 5:30 and at work just before 7 each day. My normal lunch time is around 11:30 (ie. now - leftovers are in the microwave!) because any later and I'd just about pass out from hunger.
Yup know where it is, friends of mine used to live out that way :)
Thanks, that would be much appreciated! I'm in the outer-east but am willing to travel to get it sorted if needs must.
+1 for Team Hose. Start with a nozzle set to a gentler spray pattern, but if noise persists, time to turn that dial to full-blast jet.
For the retro techies out there... I have a CRT monitor that needs repair to fully complete my retro gaming rig. Tube, cables, HV/flyback etc. are fine, it's got other electronic issues resulting in no video, that are a little more outside my skillset to fix.
Places willing to fix CRTs are now basically non-existent that I can find, anyone have any tips for somewhere that may repair such a thing? Most hear 'CRT' and nope out.
Extra frustrating because my dad used to DO exactly this for a living! I swear I have aches that stem from helping him move mega-heavy CRT TVs around his workshop as a kid! I have no doubt he'd have been able to sort this thing out in a hour or less. 😔
My workplace is full of 18-21yo university students. I have given up trying to swerve and dodge out of their way because they're walking down corridors with their heads buried in their phones and weaving all over the place more than a Ranger driver on the freeway.
Now I just walk a straight path (off to one side, not in the middle of the walkway) and just let them crash into me. They wake up startled from their trances and frantically apologise for not watching where they're going... and then proceed to re-bury their heads in their screens and carry on as they were :|
It's already happened twice today.