4 Dec
2014
4 Dec
'14
10:16 a.m.
On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, Sean Caron wrote:
Man, I have been interested in the Corvus Concept for
many years, ever
since I read a Creative Computing article on it when I was a youngster (not
sure it's in the ~30% of this magazine issue I still have, LOL). I don't
think I've ever seen anyone exhibiting a complete unit... I'll be
interested to see responses; this is definitely a machine that should have
a little more historical presence on the Web! Neat little system.
I've been an avid collector of all things Corvus for over 20 years. The
crown jewel of my collection is a complete and functional Concept with
display, keyboard and almost every peripheral board ever manufactured.
About 15 years back I ran into a guy at the MIT Flea Market who had a
basement full of Corvus equipment and picked up the entire lot for free.
For lack of storage space, I gave away a Concept, keyboard an monitor in
the early 2000s. At this point, I have no extras of anything.
The monitor is an oddball unit made by Ball. It uses non-standard sync
timing and I've never been able to find any technical information on it.
Mine can be a bit flakey at times and I'm not sure what to do as an
alternative. I've fed the output to a few different converters and
multi-sync monitors, but no joy with anything.
Steve
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