The way hardware ages can be difficult to judge. You may be using a 10-year-old PC and feeling satisfied, or you may be running last-gen hardware and already looking ...
In context: Japanese companies have long been known for clinging to outdated technologies such as floppy disk drives and fax machines, but that is now changing faster than ever. Even the venerable VGA ...
Your friend is mistaken. This serial port he is talking about is called "CGA" and closely resembles a serial port. However it still requires a graphics card and a monitor! You can convert a CGA signal ...
I'm sure there is a spec somewhere (VESA or something) but here are a couple of references. Power is watts = volts * amps. Even though there was a +5V pin on a VGA connector, it may not be suitable ...