I'll add to this too, taken a while ago of my old car in an Australian shopping mall, and Nissan Patrols aren't even the most egregious here.
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I imagine a lot of these went that way unfortunately, including this one. They were difficult to use on Windows 95 onwards as far as I've found due to the SVGA resolution being interlaced, making them more tempting to toss once the Osborne PC became obsolete.
It's quite amazing he continued using it up to the 2010s, but I suppose when you have a completely offline system that already meets your needs, then it can't really go obsolete.
Thanks for the heads up - it'll stay as a very occasional use monitor until I either feel comfortable enough to look inside (after lots of research, given the voltages within) or find a friend experienced in CRTs. I really wouldn't want to blow it up when it could've been prevented easily by maintaining it.
Thank you both for the advice, this was exactly what I needed - I know absolutely nothing about CRT maintenance but I have tinkered inside plenty other electronics before.
Before I do anything on it I'll be doing all the research I can to ensure it's as safe as possible and avoiding areas that can't be discharged, and otherwise hunting within my friend circles for a CRT guy who can help me with it.
Edit: this will all serve as a lesson for me taking on a more ambitious project I have, an iMac G3 that doesn't post. Unsure at this stage if the CRT works or not in it, but I believe something is wrong with the PC's PSU currently
I feel it always has been rigged, it's just that the rigging has always been so incompetent