On Wednesday 28 June 2006 06:14 pm, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
I've just got hold of an old (probably late-80s)
Hughes 800 projector.
It's a couple of feet long and very very heavy. Inside is a big xenon
lamp, a CRT of some kind, and some optics. It appears to work by
shining the lamp (through mirrors) onto the face of the CRT. The big
problem is, it doesn't appear to produce any video. I can hear the CRT
scan coils going. The scan pitch changes when I remove the video
source. In fact, it does appear to do all the things I'd expect when I
press buttons, but no picture comes out :-/
Is there a number anywhere visible on that "CRT"? It may not be one,
possibly...
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
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