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ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

Vintage Oddware: The Monitor Miser

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Vintage Oddware: The Monitor Miser

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ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 1 year ago
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Oddware: The Monitor Miser
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The Monitor Miser was a good idea, five years too late. As a result, most of them were forgotten in a warehouse for a quarter-century, before being sold as e...
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    What is it? Not going to watch the video.

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      It’s an energy saving device from 1993 which connects inline with the monitor’s power cord, and also inline with the keyboard. It cuts power to the monitor when no keyboard activity is detected for 10-42min (Adjustable with DIP switches)

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        Thanks! Definitely ahead of its time!

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