Sold as is, not working, no returns, no refunds.
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Shipping to USA is flat rate $73.50, but if you are in California,
please send me a message BEFORE you buy and I will reduce the shipping
to $44.25 for you.
Free local pickup in the Los Feliz district of L.A. is okay if you can
work around my busy schedule.
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This is an as-is Apple Macintosh M1296 12" RGB CRT.
As far as I could tell from my fairly time consuming checking earlier
this year in April when I NEEDED to see a display fast for a client
repair, it doesn't work.
I shouldn't have been keeping all these super nice Apple things so
long, I've had SO many IIfx, Classic, Classic II, LC 520, etc. that
were sealed in the back of the warehouse for 15-20 years after being
tested good, only to find out that I turn them on now and the Classics
have huge stripes across the screen and the IIfxs are bricked because
of the fake caps they used in them leaking out (they are fake Panasonic
SMD electrolytics, Synhouse went to production with REAL Panasonic SMD
electrolytics [and Panasonic tantalum, etc.] with the Synhouse MIDIJACK
series, and not one has leaked out in 24 years, not to mention some of
those were old stock so the caps might be 25-28 years old now). I was
holding them as values went up, now a lot of them don't work.
I can't guarantee this is the problem with this Apple M1296, but I
assume it's more of the same.
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You may be able to fix it or not, so it's being sold as-is, no returns,
no refunds.
This is heavy and expensive to ship so I'd hope someone can make a
local pickup. This one isn't in the warehouse anymore, it's home.
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I don't do any high voltage CRT work, so I'm not doing this repair and
testing, and am offering it for sale.
This is one of the nicest original Apple monitors I've seen, it's
beautiful, but it doesn't seem to work.
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Test history on this one (it came in around 2002-2003):
Months ago, I had to test and do significant repairs on an Apple
PowerMac 9500, so I needed a Mac display, and mouse, and keyboard, and
brought it in from the warehouse (you can see in two of the photos in
the photo gallery, there's lots, a full pallet rack of Macs, and then
some). I climbed back there and picked out the right one, this M1296, a
very durable 12" RGB CRT, which is known to me to be very, very
reliable, if you can live with 640 x 480.
But it didn't work. I was using it with two computers, my own Mac 7200
just for reference (and it was similar to the other one, not a good
screen image), and the client's PowerMac 9500 which it HAD to work with
for testing. It didn't. The screen was bad, as you can see in the
photos that show three different tests of that screen.
It is possible that the M1296 doesn't work with the Mac 9500, or this
9500 because of the ATI or whatever video card it is, it's a fancier
video card in there than I'd normally use, and this was reinforced by
me maybe never in my life seeing one of these M1296 CRTs NOT working.
Though it hadn't been touched in 10+ years, and has been stocked here
since 2002 or 2003.
After that I had to haul it over here to test with my own 7200.
Confirmed, a bad screen image.
After that, I went back to the warehouse and brought back one of my
M1212 CRTs, and it was working fine with the Mac 9500, so I did two
days of repairs and got it done. Still using it out there, actually, as
I have a few repairs going.
So as you can see, the screen is about 20% collapsed inward from the
bottom of the screen upward, and the rest has lines across it. You can
tell it is receiving the image. But it is being sold as-is.
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The item is as described in the title and as shown in the photos. ALL
of my photos are the actual items, always.
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Shipping
This will be safely packed for shipment.
This is a heavy item, valuable and delicate. I will pack it into a
cardboard carton with solid foam and polypropylene strap it, and I
don't get paid for that. So a local pickup would be nice...
Shipping to USA is flat rate $73.50, but if you are in California,
please send me a message BEFORE you buy and I will reduce the shipping
to $44.25 for you.
Free local pickup in the Los Feliz district of L.A. is okay if you can
work around my busy schedule.