On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 09:48:55AM -0500, Douglas Quebbeman wrote: Several years ago I worked for someone who had a few dozen surplus Moniterm 19" monitors, and most of them needed the same repair - the first-stage video amplifier transistors needed replacing, and they needed general alignment/color adjustments. They work well at 1280x1024x60hz, but are very unusual in that they use DIP switches to control the "fixed" frequency at which they operate; therefore can be used at other resolutions and refresh rates too, with enough patience and tweaking. My only reward for this work was that I got to keep one of them; and now my dad has it. He uses it with a Worldwyde S3-Virge- based PC video card. This card does line doubling/tripling/quadrupling, and padding, as necessary to force all video modes into an approximately 1024-line non-interlaced format. They are color and have 4 BNC inputs (composite sync). I have another old CAD-oriented ISA board which worked with this monitor too, but it could only do 16 colors, and did not do text mode at all; it only worked in Windows 3.1 and AutoCAD 10. That card (and docs, drivers etc.) are available for trade or whatever if anyone wants it. These monitors do not generate a full-screen picture; there is a large black band around the outside. Their excuse was that they wanted to have a very precise image, so that straight lines look straight, and therefore avoided the edges parts of the CRT. I thought it was a lame excuse; but if I try to make the picture bigger, it gets distorted. The CRT is by Sony I think, but they probably designed their own electronics. I have technical docs on these monitors (somewhere) if anyone here ever needs it. -- _______ Shawn T. Rutledge / KB7PWD ecloud(a)bigfoot.com (_ | |_) http://www.bigfoot.com/~ecloud kb7pwd(a)kb7pwd.ampr.org __) | | \________________________________________________________________