Aside from keeping decades-old consumer-grade computing ... Whether your screen is a domestic TV or a dedicated monitor, the heat and voltage stress of driving a CRT made these devices ...

Here’s a bulky old CRT monitor used as a touch-screen without any alterations. It doesn’t use an overlay, but instead detects position using phototransistors in the fingertips of a glove.

Someone had a old Samsung SyncMaster 793s. A 17-inch 85Hz monitor that, in a weird twist of fate, was the same model of CRT I had before I transitioned to LCDs more than 20 years ago. I brought it ...