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Please explain "multisync monitor" to me.

Neat, but it doesn't do VGA. It also (if you look at where the connector on the rear is) like someone hacked a regular generic VGA flatpanel.
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patscc said:
generic486, do you guys have thrift stores and garage sales, fleamarkets and the like over there ?
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OT, but I went to the Brownville flea market last weekend looking for a CRT. Not even a multisync or anything unusual, just a nice 19" CRT to replace my failing one. I didn't see any electronics at all. No VGA monitors, no CRT TVs, not a keyboard, or pong machine, not even a tray of NES games.

I did see one small box of Playstation 2 sports games. And there were several vendors with old cameras, and loads of VHS tapes. That's kind of in the ball park of collectable old tech. I can't figure out why not one of two hundred vendors had anything relevant. In any case, if you're in the area, avoid the Brownville flea market.
 
patscc said:
Agreed, but not all of them can handle the older 9-pin digital formats (MDA/CGA/EGA)
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Totally agree. I didn't mean to imply that they did. Maybe using a VGA monitor was a bad example. I was trying to put the term multi-sync in historical perspective. They were a wonder at the time because they could synch to multiple frequencies. The older monitors would only synch to one frequency. The idea of a single frequency monitor is probably rather foreign to someone who's never used one.
 
Hatta said:
OT, but I went to the Brownville flea market last weekend looking for a CRT. Not even a multisync or anything unusual, just a nice 19" CRT to replace my failing one. I didn't see any electronics at all. No VGA monitors, no CRT TVs, not a keyboard, or pong machine, not even a tray of NES games.

I did see one small box of Playstation 2 sports games. And there were several vendors with old cameras, and loads of VHS tapes. That's kind of in the ball park of collectable old tech. I can't figure out why not one of two hundred vendors had anything relevant. In any case, if you're in the area, avoid the Brownville flea market.
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That is exactly what I see when I go to a flea market. I think I once saw a C64 but it was way overpriced. Since I seeing mostly machines from about 2000 being chucked, I can assume that it was common to find a late 80's PC back in 1999-2000. 12 years seems to be when people chuck the computers.
 
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