The whole thing is awful. I lived through it too, and continue to do so, but my perspective is a bit different. Everywhere, all the time, I hear people looking for these things, invariably whining "I had one years ago but I tossed it, I was so dumb!" Now they're forced to pay $200-400 for an EGA CRT if they can even find one.
The same thing will happen to VGA CRTs, though their production volumes were much higher.
People contact LSSM almost daily asking if we have any EGA CRTs to sell. (despite the fact that EGA is decades too new for our focus, and we don't sell anything!)
Extreme short-sightedness is endemic now. This is how things become "rare". And salesmen laugh all the way to the bank.
-Dave
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On 11/3/24 11:58, Chuck Harris wrote:
Having lived through it, I see the story differently:
When VGA came out, the idiot collectors and museums
dropped the ball by not obsessively hoarding all of
the obsolete EGA monitors for future use and display
in their museums.
The EPA, egged on by woke, but truly ignorant
environmentalists, forbade the export of scrap CRT lead
glass cullet to non OECD countries (think: third world).
This forced the E-scrappers to unwisely (and much later
illegally) warehouse the lead glass cullet while waiting
for market, and regulatory, conditions to improve. This
also forced the non OECD countries, which would have
gladly processed the scrap lead glass cullet back into
CRTs, to buy virgin lead glass to meet their manufacturing
needs.
Conditions changed, but only for the worse. You see,
the scrap CRT lead glass cullet went from an item that
could be recycled into new CRTS, by non OECD countries,
into an item that was by EPA decree a toxic waste to be
disposed of in sealed toxic waste landfills, at a very
toxic price.
The regulators, feeding off of the crisis they helped
create, fined the E-scrappers that warehoused the lead
glass cullet into bankruptcy. Ultimately, US taxpayers
and the warehouse landlords paid for the disposal of the
lead glass cullet abandoned by the EPA bankrupted E-scrap
companies.
As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
-Chuck Harris
On Sun, 03 Nov 2024 09:23:31 -0500 "Dave McGuire"
<mcguire@...> wrote:
EGA monitors are quite rare and expensive today, due to idiots
obsessively e-cycling them. If they are still common down in your
area, you are very lucky!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Dave McGuire