Replacing HP 700 terminal CRTs
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Sun Sep 25 23:46:05 CDT 2016
the only difference might be the keycaps and ROMs! let me know!
Ed#
In a message dated 9/25/2016 9:35:27 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
davidkcollins2 at gmail.com writes:
Apart from the different colors I'd be surprised if all the tubes weren't
interchangable between the 700 series. I think the only difference between
models is the logic PCA and ROMs etc. The 700 series service manual
would confirm one way or the other.
David Collins
(Sent from out of office)
> On 26 Sep. 2016, at 3:08 am, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
>
> I picked up a 700/60, the ANSI version of the HP 700-series terminal and
when I took it
> apart to clean, it had a VDC 1401DP31BE inside. I swapped the CRT into a
700/92 which
> has a slightly different board, and a burned in amber tube, and it
worked fine.
> Also I noticed the 700/96 PCB is almost identical to the 700/60, so I'll
try a
> rom swap to see what happens.
>
> Too bad there aren't generally available cross reference list for
terminal CRTs.
> FWIW, the 700/96 has a Philips M32ECD3G CRT.
>
> VDC is having a "sale" on the 1401DP4 and P31. The tube price is pretty
cheap but the
> shipping is about double when you price it against their normal $55
price. The shipping
> goes down with quantity, so if you buy 5 or so it ends up being about
$25 a tube and
> significantly cheaper than all of the ones listed on eBay.
>
>
>
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