Hello fellow ClassicCmp'ers,
I have a Viewsonic PT813 21" CRT monitor, a very high-end professional model
that I was told used to cost $1800 new (1997), has both DE15 and BNC inputs
and supports both PeeCee video and sync on green. Unfortunately it is
malfunctioning - the picture is smudged to the point of being totally
unreadable. It seems like some component in its circuitry went bad -
I don't think it's the CRT - so it's probably fixable.
The person who sold it to me has agreed to refund me what I paid for it
and let me keep the broken monitor, and OKed me offering it for free to
the list. Since I believe it to be fixable, but lack the time, tools and
skills necessary to do so, I offer it for free to anyone who thinks he can
fix it.
If fixed it would make a great monitor for classic computers, and has the
added bonus that the VS3100 GPX board firmware is perfectly happy with this
monitor connected (as I wrote in my other posts, it often throws up a tantrum
with other perfectly good SoG monitors). So if you fix it, it should work
beautifully with VS3100 GPX, VS3100 SPX, other DEC and other classic
workstations.
The monitor is near San Diego, California. If you want it, you must come
and pick it up. I lack the materials and skills to properly pack it for
shipping (if I shipped it, you would get a pile of broken plastic and glass
instead of a bad-but-fixable monitor), and I don't even have a car to take
it to a shipping store that could pack it for me.
MS