CRT monitor forum?

[DeChief]

I'm not sure how into CRTs the rest of you are, but I find myself working on them almost more often than the computers they go with! Would be cool to be able to show and talk about some of the weirder ones I've got, and see all of yours.

 

[Kai Robinson]

The apple, commodore and atari sections all feature their own area for monitors - were you meaning a general 'catch all'?

 

[blkt]

I'd like to 2nd the idea for a dedicated (higher-profile) CRT section. The current CRT forums are buried inside as sub-forums. Most people will never find them. While logic boards, etc. are very well covered in the vintage community, there's relatively little about CRTs.

 

[DeChief]

The apple, commodore and atari sections all feature their own area for monitors - were you meaning a general 'catch all'?

I'd like to 2nd the idea for a dedicated (higher-profile) CRT section. The current CRT forums are buried inside as sub-forums. Most people will never find them. While logic boards, etc. are very well covered in the vintage community, there's relatively little about CRTs.

Yes, that was my thinking. Mostly because there are plenty of CRTs out there that aren't made for specific computers but are compatible with them, eg. a composite monitor can be used with most 8-bit computers, so which sub-forum would it go in?

 

[Branchus]

We've discussed this and agree that CRTs should indeed have their own section. So do you have any thoughts about the subsections it should include? Should we split them into brands/sizes etc?

 

[re4mat]

Some ideas:

• Integrated (e.g. compact Macs)
• Monochrome
• Colour RGB
• Consumer TV
• PVM/BVM

 

[DeChief]

We've discussed this and agree that CRTs should indeed have their own section. So do you have any thoughts about the subsections it should include? Should we split them into brands/sizes etc?

Some ideas:

• Integrated (e.g. compact Macs)
• Monochrome
• Colour RGB
• Consumer TV
• PVM/BVM

That could work, I was thinking even simpler than that: one for TVs and one for monitors. However I'm not sure how well regular TVs fit into the forum in general if it's meant to be about computers.