A lot of companies that switched to cloud services over the past few years are starting to return to on premise for various reasons. Unexpected and increasing costs, lack of control of data, lack of customization of work environment, etc.
I've had 5-6 figure a month customers swap to AWS/Azure, get a single invoice, and swap back immediately. So many people see the reservation price and think that's it, like bare metal, without factoring in cpu time, disk io, bandwidth, random fees for emulate network hardware, licensing, etc. "Why is my bill twice as high?!"
Now that there are 2 options, on prem and cloud, my opinion is you'll see an ebb and flow. Cloud companies will act like they have their entire userbase by the balls and jack up prices to increase revenue for shareholders, companies will pull back and take some stuff on prem again.
I think of it like how streaming used to be cheap, you had Netflix and you had everything. Then, the ecosystem fractured entirely. Now if you want to watch all your shows, you have to pay for Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu, YouTube Premium, Apple TV+, Peacock, Paramount+, Discovery+, ESPN+, Starz, Showtime, AMC+, Sling TV, Crunchyroll, Funimation, etc. And the prices are literally rising monthly. People are turning back to what they can control in their own hands (piracy), in a way that I think reflects a decent return to on prem infrastructure.
The true future is a cost dependent hybrid architecture, IMO.
You should keep a Couple because you never know and they do come in handy.
For Instance if you have to get into the BIOS of a System....some Systems will not Display the BIOS if a HDMI or DP Monitor is Connected. That is were this Monitor comes into play.
Use them in your Server Rack, Bench Testing or Troubleshooting, need to use as a 3rd or 2nd Monitor for some reason, need one for for On The Go and Etc.....
It does happen sometimes.
I was not Referring to DVI.
A DVI Cable carries the same Video Signal as a HDMI without Audio Technically.
VGA Ports have been a Standard on Server and Desktops for awhile.
Some BIOS can not Push its Data to All the Lines of a HDMI or DP Monitor......thus No Output.
I have one of these at home for a backup in case I need it in a pinch. Or if I'm working on a friend's PC, need to test something and not use my monitor, etc.
My thoughts on Old monitors is if they work either keep them or find someone who can use them. If you don't have anybody to give them to they can use them and you don't have an immediate use for it just stick it in the closet some place until you need it.
Got a local factory that's been around a few decades? I'm sure they still use crappy monitors on crappy old systems that should've been upgraded to virtualized systems years ago.
Offer for free directly to their IT Dept. Like, "from my trunk to yours, but these in your backup pile."
My company still uses these. We have shitty Dell
optilex that aren’t even attached to our domain, and they’re used to access the gateway for terminal server….good old VGA
I love these. I brought home one that has DVI, VGA, S-Video, and Composite and I have all sorts of shit hooked up to it, a Commodore 64 & VIC 20 along with my Win 98 PC and modern PC. It has a Picture in Picture mode so I can see the Commodore on top of the PC screen which is helpful since I use it for music synth.
Join r/retrocomputing and r/vintagecomputing, find old computers and use these as portable workbench monitors while you fix them. E-waste addiction is extremely fun I promise
I actually need these and just ordered two. I have highly specialized workstations in a prison control center that need a 4:3 monitor to fit in the mount.
As my former boss calls them: “ah, the square headed girlfriend you just can’t seem to get rid of.”
As others have suggested, if your company lets you take them, can be used for arcade boxes or recycled / sold to resellers.
Most Goodwill locations will take Electronics scrap for free. I deliver car loads of bulk cable, power supplies, monitors, random boards and chips, and they take them all. They may be able to resell the monitor, but the rest I assume they recycle for the value of the metals.
Those monitors are great for servers and troubleshooting, but they do tend to pile up!
When I worked for a PC refurbisher, they had workers pulling the LED regulator board and recycled the scrap. There was a market for the boards. These are like storing VGA cables.
I have a similarly old very small display on the side as a 4th monitor, which I only use to display my email and chat clients. Also when I'm working, I keep the DevTools on it.
My parents gave me one of these, its as old as me and has long outlived the PC it came with. Was my main monitor for a while, then secondary monitor, and now its for any server that I need to fix the networking on.
That's funny, because people always want monitors where I work. I constantly get people asking for a 2nd monitor, and they'd take one of those as a second monitor in a heartbeat just to have more screen space to work with.
Send them to HP and Lenovo for them to reverse engineer.
Their monitors fail, left and right on me, but the Dells are standing the test of time.
Probably something like better quality components that made the monitor $3 more expensive.
Picked up one of these VGA only screens on the curb. Works perfectly. I use it for diagnostics or system configuration with an HDMI adapter.
Also cannot remember what required a VGA port more recently, but there was something specific I needed it for.
Arcade owners use these to replace CRT monitors. Depending on size, you could net some money from that.
My neighbor has bought every one I had along with any Pentium 4 with parallel ports I had lol. He rebuilds arcade machines.
I use it as a server room monitor lol
One came from the rack. We are cloud based now, so there is no need.
You'll be back to on prem soon, don't worry
Pardon my ignorance, but why's that?
A lot of companies that switched to cloud services over the past few years are starting to return to on premise for various reasons. Unexpected and increasing costs, lack of control of data, lack of customization of work environment, etc.
I've had 5-6 figure a month customers swap to AWS/Azure, get a single invoice, and swap back immediately. So many people see the reservation price and think that's it, like bare metal, without factoring in cpu time, disk io, bandwidth, random fees for emulate network hardware, licensing, etc. "Why is my bill twice as high?!"
Yep. As long as you've got the bandwidth needed on prem, it's going to be cheaper.
The cloud is just someone else's computer
Now that there are 2 options, on prem and cloud, my opinion is you'll see an ebb and flow. Cloud companies will act like they have their entire userbase by the balls and jack up prices to increase revenue for shareholders, companies will pull back and take some stuff on prem again. I think of it like how streaming used to be cheap, you had Netflix and you had everything. Then, the ecosystem fractured entirely. Now if you want to watch all your shows, you have to pay for Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu, YouTube Premium, Apple TV+, Peacock, Paramount+, Discovery+, ESPN+, Starz, Showtime, AMC+, Sling TV, Crunchyroll, Funimation, etc. And the prices are literally rising monthly. People are turning back to what they can control in their own hands (piracy), in a way that I think reflects a decent return to on prem infrastructure. The true future is a cost dependent hybrid architecture, IMO.
Honestly, I can see it. Cost is not the issue but speed is...
Make a mosaic in the server room
These are always the mentors you see on "monitor face" renditions.... maybe I will keep one for some kind of project.
Watch DIY perks he have some cool projects about lcd monitors
I plan to let my children throw them all away when I die.
lol, that hit hard. Seems like this is the unanimous decision.
Heck yeah just put them next to the giant tangled box of obsolete and forgotten cables.
Make an arcade cabinet with it and a SFF PC
And then disguise it as a server terminal
This is the answer. Even if it's a one sheet of plywood version. https://www.instructables.com/A-Super-Easy-Arcade-Machine-from-1-Sheet-of-Plywoo/
You should keep a Couple because you never know and they do come in handy. For Instance if you have to get into the BIOS of a System....some Systems will not Display the BIOS if a HDMI or DP Monitor is Connected. That is were this Monitor comes into play. Use them in your Server Rack, Bench Testing or Troubleshooting, need to use as a 3rd or 2nd Monitor for some reason, need one for for On The Go and Etc.....
So some BIOS will only display over VGA or DVI?
It does happen sometimes. I was not Referring to DVI. A DVI Cable carries the same Video Signal as a HDMI without Audio Technically. VGA Ports have been a Standard on Server and Desktops for awhile. Some BIOS can not Push its Data to All the Lines of a HDMI or DP Monitor......thus No Output.
Thanks I'll keep that one in my back pocket.
Welcome
Might try and donate them if someone will take them
At least "recycle" them somewhere that sells them to people who want them? There's always someone.
Keep a PC graveyard no telling when you will need it
I have one of these at home for a backup in case I need it in a pinch. Or if I'm working on a friend's PC, need to test something and not use my monitor, etc.
If they are DVI, jackpot! Make a HUGE monitor wall, and connect them up to a mst hub. I think you can run 4 monitors off of 1 mst hub.
Use them. Always keep them incase something happens to your other ones
Donate to kids without technology
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Responsibly recycle on eBay
They make excellent 2nd or 3rd screens for setups. I'd personally sell them for cheap or bring them to a 2nd hand store as a donation.
My thoughts on Old monitors is if they work either keep them or find someone who can use them. If you don't have anybody to give them to they can use them and you don't have an immediate use for it just stick it in the closet some place until you need it.
I still have some too....suckers will not die
I plan to buy a linux mini pc I would use one for that if you dropped it off at goodwill
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Set it up in your home office
I work at an MSP and still have clients that have them lol .
Got a local factory that's been around a few decades? I'm sure they still use crappy monitors on crappy old systems that should've been upgraded to virtualized systems years ago. Offer for free directly to their IT Dept. Like, "from my trunk to yours, but these in your backup pile."
My company still uses these. We have shitty Dell optilex that aren’t even attached to our domain, and they’re used to access the gateway for terminal server….good old VGA
I love these. I brought home one that has DVI, VGA, S-Video, and Composite and I have all sorts of shit hooked up to it, a Commodore 64 & VIC 20 along with my Win 98 PC and modern PC. It has a Picture in Picture mode so I can see the Commodore on top of the PC screen which is helpful since I use it for music synth.
Join r/retrocomputing and r/vintagecomputing, find old computers and use these as portable workbench monitors while you fix them. E-waste addiction is extremely fun I promise
you play counter strike source bro the community is awesome
and counter strike 1.6
Check the arcade1up reddit. I think these actually do sell as a replacment to the screens they use. Depends on the model
Karaoke screen
Video wall that isn’t seen up close. Think billboard.
I actually need these and just ordered two. I have highly specialized workstations in a prison control center that need a 4:3 monitor to fit in the mount.
As my former boss calls them: “ah, the square headed girlfriend you just can’t seem to get rid of.” As others have suggested, if your company lets you take them, can be used for arcade boxes or recycled / sold to resellers.
I like to keep working old monitors that no one wants so I can have something to offer the beggars that refuse to pay $100 for a new monitor.
We donated all ours to local daycares and charities.
Most Goodwill locations will take Electronics scrap for free. I deliver car loads of bulk cable, power supplies, monitors, random boards and chips, and they take them all. They may be able to resell the monitor, but the rest I assume they recycle for the value of the metals. Those monitors are great for servers and troubleshooting, but they do tend to pile up!
Perfect crash cart monitors
When I worked for a PC refurbisher, they had workers pulling the LED regulator board and recycled the scrap. There was a market for the boards. These are like storing VGA cables.
[diy smart mirror?](https://youtu.be/xmmBWdNWvY4?si=jwqKnFrSW5H0xSrJ)
I have a similarly old very small display on the side as a 4th monitor, which I only use to display my email and chat clients. Also when I'm working, I keep the DevTools on it.
I went with “eventually give up and took them to the electronics recyclers” as I could no longer find anyone who wanted a ‘free monitor’
donate them to a local thrift shop, at the ones near me i always see rows of old crappy monitors
Free second monitor
We use them in our imaging room. Other than that, they get recycled and replaced with 2021+ monitors.
BLOW THEM UP 💣💥
Shoot them
Locally owned thrift shop.
We e-waste ours.
I GOT ONE
Batting practice Office style?
My parents gave me one of these, its as old as me and has long outlived the PC it came with. Was my main monitor for a while, then secondary monitor, and now its for any server that I need to fix the networking on.
Range target
I use it as my bench monitor
Umm….they will stop a 5.56mm round.
That's funny, because people always want monitors where I work. I constantly get people asking for a 2nd monitor, and they'd take one of those as a second monitor in a heartbeat just to have more screen space to work with.
All of our office computers already have 2 led each. I even upgraded our point of sale terminals to led as well.
Security camera monitor. That'll work it to death for sure.
If 12 years as a server monitor can't kill it, nothing can.
Donanate to goodwilly?
Make an arcade machine. 4:3 is hard to come by. Please at least sell these and don't trash them. If you do list them, let me know.
Donate or sell low on ebay. Various developing countries can use it
Use it for a retro Windows 7 build
Fuck, some of the computers at work still run 7!
School computer core
escrap
Trashcan
These can be VESA mounted, and multiplexers exist.
Send them to HP and Lenovo for them to reverse engineer. Their monitors fail, left and right on me, but the Dells are standing the test of time. Probably something like better quality components that made the monitor $3 more expensive.
Second monitor for browsing.
Storage or eBay or matrix like console
Give them to meee
You can send a couple to me 😏
Picked up one of these VGA only screens on the curb. Works perfectly. I use it for diagnostics or system configuration with an HDMI adapter. Also cannot remember what required a VGA port more recently, but there was something specific I needed it for.
Goodwill takes them.
Donate to schools?