Re: When Is A Game Old?

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:38:29 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
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I do NOT miss the weight of CRT TVs and monitors.

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The /only/ thing I miss about CRTs is that you could put things on top
of them. Files. Disks. A keyboard. It was a useful storage area; out
of the way enough that you weren't cluttering up your immediate
work-area, but still accessible enough that you could grab stuff from
atop it at need.

The only thing that got "stored" on top of a CRT (monitor or TV) at our
place, was the cat.   

Kitties loved CRTs for the delicious heat they produced.

Although God forbid something you put on top of the monitor fell
off... and then you'd have to shift the bastard device to get to your
lost documents.
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The closest I've gotten, in this age of flat-screens, to that lost
functionality was when I bought a little drawer for my tower computer
that slotted into a 5.25" external drive bay. ;-)

So you almost created that age old tech support tales of the cup holder
(putting a coffee cup on the extended cd-rom.)


My monitor sits on a little "hutch" which is actually the top case of an
ancient desktop XT, turned back to front - old burned dvds in cases
underneath (and the new sound bar) and pills/watches/rings/etc on top.

I used to put the CRTs on it to lift them high enough so I wasn't
looking down at them, the lcds put much less strain on it, but then
those old cases were strong enough to stand on easily.

I swear new case material is so thin you could bend it if you sneezed in
it's general direction.

Xocyll