7 Nov
2014
7 Nov
'14
6:44 p.m.
On 11/07/2014 05:00 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
Of course working condition is unknown, so before I
commit to it, are
there any common showstoppers with these displays (failed CRT, yoke
windings, LOPT etc.) - or are whatever faults that may be typical with
them all in components that are still available?
In general, they were pretty reliable and *very* simple internally. The
big gotcha I've seen in these is screen burn. I can't opine on
available parts, however.
There was a time that the MGA (Hercules Graphics) was one of the better
adapter-monitor combinations for fine work. Shadow-mask color CRTs have
a certain granularity to the display, while the monochrome display
doesn't suffer from that.
--Chuck