On 13/01/2017 20:51, "Tony Duell" <ard.p850ug1 at gmail.com> wrote:
Just looked at
the pics of someone servicing one, I'll go looking for the
manual :)
It's actually not too bad to work on. The 2 main PCBs (deflection one side,
video processing on the other) are on fold-out frames. And in fact the whole
thing comes apart in a few minutes.
So I see, it reminded me a bit of the Acorn Cambridge Workstation in that
respect.
If you can't find the service manual, I have the
one I downloaded...
Hopefully I won't need it for a long while but you never know!
The monitor is
a Hitachi chassis I think, dark-ish picture of my machine is
here:
http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/einstein.jpg
That would surprise me, given that Tatung made TV sets (which were often
badged 'Decca' in the UK). Tandy sold a set based on the Tatung 160 chassis
as well.
Yes, you're probably right. I was all over the unofficial
tatungeinstein.co.uk last year when I was readying my machine for exhibition
since I could only find one games disk for it. Naturally I found them all a
few weeks ago. Said website is run by the nephew of a Tatung worker in
Telford and I'm sure he said who made the monitor but I can't find it now.
Given that, I would have thought they would have used
their own chassis
in this monitor.
And why oh why did I look on ebay for Einstein stuff....grr.... :)
Why? What happened?
I was reminded that the Einstein 256 existed and there's still a couple of
places selling unused ones - unused because there wasn't a market for them
AND the monitor powered the machine a la Amstrad. Not that I've got a spare
?250 of course, but...
--
Adrian/Witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer
collection?