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July 5, 2006: Apple discontinues its low-end eMac product line. The action signals the end of the cathode ray tube era for Macs.

After more than a quarter-century using CRT monitors, Apple shifts to the superior LCD technology still used for Macs today.

The rise and fall of CRT monitors
Apple started selling CRT monitors in 1980 with the 12-inch Monitor ///. This shipped as part of the ill-fated Apple III business computer.

Under Robert Brunner, Apple’s design lead from 1989 until 1996, the company explored LCD displays. However, it took until the mid-2000s for Apple to finally pull the plug on CRT monitors for good. The company ushered in the new era with the LCD iMac G4. Customers nicknamed it the “iLamp” due to its unusual design.

Although LCD displays cost more, they brought some big advantages over CRT monitors. These included decreased power consumption, increased brightness, and a reduced flicker effect caused by the slow refresh rate of CRT displays.

LCD means thinner displays for Macs
The biggest impact of switching from CRT to LCD, though, was that the technology allowed Apple to explore thinner displays for Macs. These dragged the computer industry out of the “large beige box” era it had been stuck in since the 1980s.

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I still have a couple CRT monitors.

I need to make some room so I can drag them out and see of all the caps didn't dry up.

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I am that Masked Man.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

My eMac still boots!

haha - very timely; I just got rid of my last CRT monitor (an Apple Multiple Scan 15, from April 1995) - unceremoniously hauled off to an Electronics Recycling event; as I was doing so, I pondered that the me of 25 years ago would be dumbfounded at the thought of future-me essentially just throwing it away even though it was still working perfectly.

I learned a little about repairing CRTs over the last year. Managed to bring the vector monitor on my Tempest arcade game back to life, and I'm working on the screen for a venerable Monaco GP right now. They're not very sophisticated, few if any ICs to deal with, just old school caps, resistors, transistors and diodes. As long as the tube is intact most of them can be resurrected.

Will - enjoy this if you've not seen it. [www.youtube.com]

I have half a dozen dead or dying SE and SE/30 cathode ray tubes, and no place to lay them to rest.

So Apple was ahead of its time w/ Critical Race Theory way back when, eh???
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Will - enjoy this if you've not seen it. [www.youtube.com]

Oh that’s great, thanks.

I had a lab full of the "Stormtrooper Macs" for a while... quite a while, in fact.
Pretty good machines in their day.

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A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca c. 5 BC - 65 AD
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Good is the enemy of Excellent. Talent is not necessary for Excellence.
Persistence is necessary for Excellence. And Persistence is a Decision.
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We had an eMac, it was decent for the time.

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