Betelgeuse wrote:
Also, do you have any of the old Commodore monitors? Such as the 1940, 1942, 1960 etc. that can do 15kHz and 30+kHz?
Yeah actually I do have a bunch of Amiga monitors.
I have a working 1950 on my test bench, along with a working 1084S and a 1084. I also have other working Amiga monitors but haven't got around to testing them all.
I've always viewed the monitors as "too damn heavy to ship, and who would want to pay for that?" perhaps I've been wrong?
If you want to hear a sad story about Amiga monitors... the company I got all my inventory from used to be the largest Amiga mail order company in North America. They were Commodore Canada's largest customer (they amounted to 60% of all of their business in the last 3 years of Commodore Canada!). How did the "fine folks" at Commodore repay them for their years of loyalty and millions of dollars worth of business?
They sent them a final shipment of about 100 monitors with the deal that "other dealers are screaming for these, if you want them all send us a certified cheque for $21,000 and they're all yours!" So the company did just that, the next day the monitors shipped on 5 or 6 paletts. The day after that Commodore Canada closed their doors for good. Three days later 100 monitors showed up at the Amiga dealer... TWO of them worked.
Those fine upstanding people at Commodore Canada sent them all their 'returned for warranty' garbage. Nice thank you for your years of patronage hey? They probably all got their final paycheques from that last $21,000 cheque and ran for the doors.
Anyway, I recycled 40+ Amiga monitors, fixed the cosmetic ones (changed cases on a few 1950's and 1960 that worked but had cracked cases or broken doors) and sold some of them. What remains here are 2002, 2024, 1950, 1960, 1084S, 1084, 1080, and some others. I might have a 1942 in here somewhere too but I'd have to find it, they're all piled in a corner and each is wrapped in pink bubblewrap so I can't even see wtf is what (bad planning!). I was smart enough to keep most of the RGB cables but I wasn't smart enough to mark which ones go with which monitor type(s). :crazy:
I'll try each one, eventually, and see which ones work (completely) and list them here before I eBay them. That way if anyone wants one we can figure out a cheap price and find out what shipping would be. Don't hold your breath though, this might not happen before Christmas. You should know beforehand that to ship a monitor averages $40-$60 because of the weight.
