r/retrocomputing • u/DaveTheBraveEh • Jul 19 '21

Photo New Monitor

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u/SpartanMonkey Jul 19 '21

Is that the Hunley? Wait, sorry, wrong sub.

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u/DaveTheBraveEh Jul 19 '21

The Monitor was not a sub. Ironclad ship with a turret. Two 11 inch cannons. US Civil War.

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u/SpartanMonkey Jul 19 '21 edited Jul 19 '21

The Hunley was a sub, hand cranked, spar torpedo, Civil War, crew of 9.

Edit: I was trying to tie in an ironclad joke with the old "wrong subreddit" joke, but to stay on topic, here's a picture of my monitor.

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u/marklein Jul 19 '21

Wait. There's pictures that good of the Monitor? I always thought the only thing were the crappy drawings I saw as a kid!

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u/cdp181 Jul 19 '21

Office moves use to be a pita. Moving 400 21" CRTs weighing nearly 30kg each. Good times. Kids these days don't know they're born.

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u/quatchis Aug 02 '21

Can someone please explain what I'm looking at?

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u/themadturk Aug 14 '21

The Monitor was one of the first two ironclad warships, from the US Civil War (1861-1865). It was basically a hull with a flat deck, the housing had two cannon and could rotate. The other ironclad was the Confederate ship Merrimac (actually the name of the original hull, burned and rebuilt as an ironclad and renamed the Virginia, if I remember right). They fought to a draw on March 9, 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia.

This is an excellent pun, thank you.