Those TV’s were great for old school games, but it was like lifting a barrel of cement to move them.
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Those TVs ~~were~~ are great for old school games.
100%. Was like moving a body.
I was in IT support when an entire school (granted they only had like two computer classes but) needed to be updated from some 24" CRTs to TFTs.
A 24" TV was already somewhat heavy, but not horrible. Computer screens heavier. I had to lob like 60 of those around the whole day.
So if the CRT TV's were like cement, the CRT PC screens were like lead.
I'm not completely sure they were 24", but at least 23". Weighted like 25-40 kilos. (60-90lbs idk)
At LAN parties we'd always help each other out with their gear and setup. But not the CRT. Everyone had to carry their own. Your own fault when you want to have an oversized beast.
Being CRTs, there probably actually was lead inside them
free exercise
You misspelled, hernia.
I can literrally hear the high-frequency noise from a CRT.
We used to lug these over to a buddies house so err could lan 4 xboxes together and have 16 player halo.
As a kid I was laying on the ground kicking the TV stand out of boredom and the tv fell on me and I almost got squashed but my dad was fast and pulled me out of the way by my arm. It was a big TV.
When I was a kid it was cheaper to have a repairman come out, several times, than replace the TV. If you could figure out which tube was bad, you could go to the grocery store for a new one.
