Holammer
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Went to town and visited the landfill to fetch a 300'ish liter bag for garden waste. Obviously I had to check out the e-waste stuff and there was a heartbreaking graveyard of CRTs, two Sony monitors, couple of TVs and a big attention grabbing chonker of a CRT which looked like it was newly unboxed without any yellowing, scuff-marks, dirt or scratches. In oddly immaculate condition on the outside and it's a Samsung Syncmaster 959NF.
I consider asking/begging the guys working there if I can take it, but chicken out. They'll think I'm a weirdo, maybe there's a policy which forbids it? Break my back for something which might actually be broken?
When I get home I start googling.
It's Samsung's CRT from 2003, a 4:3 19" beast capable of 1920x1440@73Hz. There's not much info about it, two Russian videos on YT showing machines on the fritz. Just look at the size of that thing! It would have been beautiful for retrogaming with RetroArch, this is going to bother me for a long time. I should've taken the chance.
I consider asking/begging the guys working there if I can take it, but chicken out. They'll think I'm a weirdo, maybe there's a policy which forbids it? Break my back for something which might actually be broken?
When I get home I start googling.

It's Samsung's CRT from 2003, a 4:3 19" beast capable of 1920x1440@73Hz. There's not much info about it, two Russian videos on YT showing machines on the fritz. Just look at the size of that thing! It would have been beautiful for retrogaming with RetroArch, this is going to bother me for a long time. I should've taken the chance.