[Tuxaloosa] Any hardware hackers out there? Fun to be had with a LCD display with busted cable?

Nilson Cain nilson at gmail.com
Sat Aug 22 17:58:05 UTC 2009


Pimp out your truck with it :)

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Cameron Purvis
<cameron.purvis at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have an LCD monitor which may or may not work in the conceptual sense.
> That is to say, the signal cable to the poor thing was cut, possibly by the
> chewing of an animal.   It has a foot or so of the VGA cable coming out of
> the back.  It's a compaq 15" display.  It seems to be one of those stupid
> @#$&@ units where the signal cable is permanently attached to the insides of
> the monitor.
>
> Can anyone think of anything interesting to do with this?  I suspect the
> monitor works, but the notion of spending a couple of hours splicing in a
> VGA cable is horrifying and likely pointless - any ideas other than trashing
> it?
>
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