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oldbull

Posted Thu Dec 27, 2018 11:45 pm

I'm getting a shopping list together and considering an RGB to VGA adapter. I have a 17 inch CRT monitor I would like to use but just picking it up I can tell it weighs a good bit more than a 1084. I don't want to damage the A1000 by putting too much weight on it.

Has anyone else tried a 17 inch CRT on top of an A1000?

Thanks.

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Zippy Zapp
CA, USA

Posted Fri Dec 28, 2018 10:57 am

I don't have an Amiga 1000 but I do have some older Macs like an LC III and a IIsi that seem to be similar in what they will hold. 17" monitors in the 80's was not really a big thing. Most were 14" or less and considerably lighter then 17" monitors of the mid to late 90's. If it is anything like my 17" Sony CPD Trinitron I don't use them on top of the smaller Macs. It is fine on the A2000 and on some of the later desktop Macs.

If it were me I probably would use a monitor stand over the 1000. But perhaps people that have an A1000 can answer better.

I worry about the plastic sagging and breaking or becoming bowed. But maybe that is just me.
Last edited by Zippy Zapp on Sun Dec 30, 2018 4:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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JEY08
Bath, MI

Posted Fri Dec 28, 2018 11:15 am

oldbull wrote:I'm getting a shopping list together and considering an RGB to VGA adapter. I have a 17 inch CRT monitor I would like to use but just picking it up I can tell it weighs a good bit more than a 1084. I don't want to damage the A1000 by putting too much weight on it.

Has anyone else tried a 17 inch CRT on top of an A1000?

Thanks.
I haven't done that but I have a 17" monitor and know what you mean about the weight. I think it would depend on what the base of your monitor looks like. If it spreads the weight over a large area and not just four pads it might be o.k.

As you remember the case top of the A1000 is held together by 5 posts. Those support the weight and are fairly far apart. The one in the center probably gets most of the load. Spreading the load with a board that covers the top of the A1000 would help.

I was nervous putting my 17" on an A3000. It was fine but it has a steel case.

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oldbull

Posted Fri Dec 28, 2018 1:56 pm

Thank you. It sounds like the A1000 was not designed to bear much weight beyond the official Commodore monitors of the day. I'll have to arrange my desk accordingly.





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