Olin, have you thought what's happened with old monitors ?
That you're droping to the garbage !
It comes on the third world countries and some guys like me are working to
transform them in autoscan monitors. For example Compaq 21 inch
fixed frequency monitors for workstations could be transformed ( with some
work ) in PC compatible. Also, all monitors coming from US as "not
reparable" are repaired ( most of them without any schematics) and sold to
the people.
 With all respect, you are doing the same mistake like all
americans, you don't know ( and the problem is you don't want to know
) there are countries in which 300 $ is less then a monthly sallary.
So here, where all guy's involved in electronics are smart, the working
costs does not means anything.
As another example, here a new modem (type A) for a rented telephone line
it costs about 120$, a normal modem ( type B )it cost 30$ and I have
requests to transform the type B into type A for about 20...30$ using a
single pic and some inteligence.
For an american is probably hard to understand, for a third world engineer
is very easy. Remember the question with Somalia I've asked ?
If any american will live just one month in a poor country and earn
his money like there, the world could be different.

Best regards for you,
Vasile

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Olin Lathrop wrote:

> > I'm curious too, to see how other worldwide people are solving this
> > problem. Thanks in advance.
>
> I don't use fixed frequency monitors.  The newer PC monitors are far cheaper
> than the old fixed frequency ones from Unix workstations and the like.  It
> just doesn't make sense to fart around with a fixed frequency monitor when
> nice 19 inch multi sync monitors are now readily available for under $300 in
> single quantities.  It will cost more than that to rig up something to make
> use of a fixed frequency monitor.
>
>
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