Oddware: The Monitor Miser
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The Monitor Miser was a good idea, five years too late. As a result, most of them were forgotten in a warehouse for a quarter-century, before being sold as e...
    • hit_the_rails@reddthat.com
      14·
      8 months ago

      It’s an energy saving device from 1993 which connects inline with the monitor’s power cord, and also inline with the keyboard. It cuts power to the monitor when no keyboard activity is detected for 10-42min (Adjustable with DIP switches)

  • JulesTheModest@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    8 months ago

    I watched more of that video than I thought I would! I don’t remember these at all (80s kid here). I think we got into the habit of just turning off our power hungry monitors all the time.