LGR Oddware - STS Tecom 5.25" Drive Bay CRT

Axonteer

why not teams? everybody uses teams here in europe but nobody zooms :D

Mel Ancholy

I don't know why, but I want to see a zoom meeting on it.

SuperTekBoy

This is amazing. :)

Kijikun

man I imagining how cool something like that would be with games like fallout if you could send the pip boy screen to it only

LGR

True that! Kinda sucks that drive bays have become so uncommon on new cases, but I get why at the same time

Honorary Octopus

Man, thats freaking awesome. i want one of those in my modern computer.. unlikely as it may be to find a case with 1 5inch drive, much less 3.

Megallennial

Delightful

LGR

*Michael McCann soundtrack intensifies*

LGR

That’d be excellent! Lots of possibilities with CRTs that small

LGR

There were some fold-out LCD drive bay displays like 7 or 8 years ago. Looked similar to a vehicle’s center console.

LGR

Yeah I showed Control very briefly, which had RTX enabled. Should’ve shown more of it!

LGR

Ha, relatable. I spent lots of time spent with amber terminals and displays growing up, sitting right up close to the screen. My eyesight has never been great and continues to perish.

LGR

Totally! It’s a crisp enough image that the lack of color isn’t a huge deal once your mind kicks in and makes up the difference

LGR

I mentioned it in passing in the video, but those do/did exist! Not very common either though, and it’s been years since I’ve seen them for sale.

LGR

I’d say I never asked for this, but I definitely did 😁

Alyxx the Rat

It just turns every game into Deus Ex Human Revolution.

Matt Tester

Explains the case and it's a perfect choice. Would be really nice if they made modern LCD versions that fold out of a single bay, we could certainly use them at work.

Lars Hammer Andersen

If I had an old PC running my home, it should have that display. Just the tower and a small keyboard.

LGR

It's been all good down where I live, thankfully!

LGR

There's only a single 5.25" drive bay in that machine, unfortunately.

Cyclone

It's crazy how easy the monochrome is to get used to. Like my brain was filling in the lack of color for me.

DFawlt Uzr

This would be so fun for LAN parties hahaha. Gimmicky maybe, but golly that's be fun

Robert Launder

All you're missing is a little Human Revolution 😁

John Covil

Nice video. Hope you stayed safe today, Clint. A friend of my wife's was trying to visit her parents in Candler, and couldn't even make it to their house. Sounds like things got pretty crazy over that way with the flash flooding.

Megan Alnico

It's a sepia toned world!

Ryan Rardin

If you still have this thing, I think it'd be cool to see it with the NuXT. Maybe with some BattleZone or Planet X3.

50_SHADES_OF_BEIGE

I can't help but think. It would be fun to do something similar with one of those CRTs Adrian had on his channel, and do like.. a Fallout themed PC with a pip or something on it.

Joon Choi

The many ways people found to stick CRTs and their crazy electron guns into all sorts of awkward places never ceases to both amuse and confound me. Also, about that time to play through New Vegas again for the millionth time! :)

50_SHADES_OF_BEIGE

Gives me a Fallout vibe.

Blair Harrison

Love it! My first PC's monitor had an mono/amber button, so I have a bit of nostalgia for anything amber. I would have been all over this thing had I found one back in the 90s.

Pietro Gagliardi

Honestly the yellowing + the bezel shape + to a lesser extent the look of the dial indicators that you showed in your tweet made this look like something Apple would have put out in the 80s =P It has that look to some extent, you know? (Let's not tell NanoRaptor...) Also is the VGA cable just supposed to surreptitiously stick out of the machine somehow? And gotta love the CRT refresh boing =P

LGR

the 3D Maze screensaver is shown at 19:21!

Robert Butler

Honestly it's so neat how small you can make a CRT.

Robert Butler

I mean it fits with the Fallout "motif", but yeah that's about all it will fit in with, haha.

Mat Cooper

Good lord that's glorious! Love Amber CRT but this is just a whole new level of awesome!

Any chance we can see what a Win98 screensaver looks like on this thing?

Carey Brown

THAT'S why you wanted a "Vintage" yellowed case. Mystery solved! Also I swear I've seen LCD versions of this in the not too distant past.

Garoninja

It might be really cool to see a game with raytracing on the monitor. Either way, super cool episode

Frederic St-Georges

There is something incredibly nostalgic about an Amber and black display. My very first PC had one and I've spent many nights basking in its warm yellow glow. Maybe that explains my terrible eyesight today...

The 8-Bit Guy

Very cool. I would have totally bought something like that back in the 90s. It would have been even cooler in a desktop system (vs. a tower) because then you could sort of use it like a Compaq Portable as it would be similar form factor! Pity about the amber color. I've never been fond of that. If it is going to be monochrome, I'd much prefer green or paper-white.

LGR

Sure is!

Joe Conti

So THIS is what the Blerb was referencing!