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If you can get any kind of multiscan monitor you're usually set for computers of that era. Connectors can be handled by passive adaptors if needed, but it is actually the refresh rate that is not always supported by the common VGA CRT (specifically the 15 kHz horizontal refresh rate).
Multiscan monitors had various names depending on the manufacturer. MultiSync, DiamondTron, SyncMaster, etc... so if you can get any CRT with 15 kHz support, you're set.
You seem to know your stuff, so I have a question - growing up, we had a monochrome CRT monitor with a sepia tint to it, and I've been looking for such a monitor for a long time, with no luck. Most of the mono monitors I've come across online are either greyscale, amber or green. I can't find a sepia tinted one. I know my monitor wasn't unique since I clearly remember some of my friends having similar sepia tinted monitors, so I'm sure mine wasn't a glitchy or something.. but I can't seem to find any evidence such a monitor even existed. Any ideas if this was really a thing, or have I somehow mixed up the colors in my memories?!
It could have been another colour with an anti-glare screen/film over the top with a tint to it.