coius
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I went to GoodByte's today looking for a laser printer. No laser printer, but I ran across an Apple //c with AppleColor Composite monitor, an external 5.25" floppy, joystick, imagewriter (all of them are in perfect plastics. Snow white! little to no yellowing!!!)
I also picked up an unknown as-is ViewSonic VG175 monitor, This allows portrait/landscape/reverse portrait/reverse landscape mode.
It does 1280x1024, and I currently have it in portrait mode.
There was no power supply, but after rummaging through the bin of lonely PSUs, I found one (generic) with the right connector, and the proper voltage. Monitor says 5 amps, but the PSU is 3.3. I know the monitor will hardly ever hit 5 amps, and when I got it home, I plugged it in. I am currently viewing this on a 17" 1280x1024 LCD that tilts/pans/rotates for a total sum of $29.99.
I gotta clean a few streaks off of it, but it's nice.
I gotta test the apple //c, but I will get to that later. I got the LCD to replace a failing monitor a guy on ebay sold me, it was a bad LCD (bad logic board) that does this funky shaking/plaid/etc stuff (yes, this is an LCD) and sometimes it does it, sometiimes it doesn't. It's not a loose solder joint, because even if I hit it, it will not go back. It might be bad caps though. it too is a view sonic, and does rotate, but it feels like junk. So for $29.99 I got a better deal with an unknown state LCD than I did paying $70 for a monitor that the guy unloaded a ton of them, and when he started getting neg feedback, he immediately closed the account. I couldn't get paypal to refund my money, so I got stuck with a bad LCD. This will replace that.
I will post pics later. The //c has that color monitor and a 2-button joystick, which is nice.
I also picked up an unknown as-is ViewSonic VG175 monitor, This allows portrait/landscape/reverse portrait/reverse landscape mode.
It does 1280x1024, and I currently have it in portrait mode.
There was no power supply, but after rummaging through the bin of lonely PSUs, I found one (generic) with the right connector, and the proper voltage. Monitor says 5 amps, but the PSU is 3.3. I know the monitor will hardly ever hit 5 amps, and when I got it home, I plugged it in. I am currently viewing this on a 17" 1280x1024 LCD that tilts/pans/rotates for a total sum of $29.99.
I gotta clean a few streaks off of it, but it's nice.
I gotta test the apple //c, but I will get to that later. I got the LCD to replace a failing monitor a guy on ebay sold me, it was a bad LCD (bad logic board) that does this funky shaking/plaid/etc stuff (yes, this is an LCD) and sometimes it does it, sometiimes it doesn't. It's not a loose solder joint, because even if I hit it, it will not go back. It might be bad caps though. it too is a view sonic, and does rotate, but it feels like junk. So for $29.99 I got a better deal with an unknown state LCD than I did paying $70 for a monitor that the guy unloaded a ton of them, and when he started getting neg feedback, he immediately closed the account. I couldn't get paypal to refund my money, so I got stuck with a bad LCD. This will replace that.
I will post pics later. The //c has that color monitor and a 2-button joystick, which is nice.