RE: Vectorbeam Question

G'day folks,

I like Zonn's theory of old Vectorbeam stock being reused by Centuri
after the remerge of Vectorbeam with Cinematronics. Sounds plausible to
me....

[ Fictitous story about two guys cleaning up the Vectorbeam building
before they close it forever: ]

George: "Hey, what are we going to do with the inventory? It's marked
as 'working'."

Harry: "I don't know...there isn't any room in San Diego. I know that
for sure."

George: "Hmmm...weren't we suppose to ship a bunch of motherboards off
to Centuri next week?"

Harry: "Hey! That's a good idea! I'll call the boss in San Diego...you
make up the address labels."

George: "But this stuff may not actually work."

Harry: "Who cares? Let Centuri figure that out...we also don't have the
spare capacity anywho in San Diego to supply Centuri really. They'll
send back the broken ones and we can replace them later."

OK, so I went a little off the deep end, but I've heard of weirder
things than this. Does anyone know someone who worked at Cinematronics
back then? That's who we should be trusting for accurate accounts about
why there's a Vectorbeam in a Centuri version of a Cinematronics
product!

                Steven S Ozdemir
                sso@dsc.com

ps - I do remember finding Vectorbeam boards in Cinematronics games. I
figured the same thing...it had something to do with the remerge.

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>From: zonn@zonn.com[SMTP:zonn@zonn.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 11:50 AM
>To: vectorlist@spies.com
>Cc: zonn@zonn.com
>Subject: Re: Vectorbeam Question
>
>On Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:00:04 -0800, "Ozdemir, Steve" <sso@dsc.com> wrote:
>
>>G'day folks,
>>
>>If you haven't moved the "VAR/NORM" jumper to the norm position on the
>>Solar Quest boards, you'll need to do so. This may be why you are
>>getting the funny vectors. The monitor from the Rip Off cocktail does
>>NOT support variable intensity (nor color for that matter). Let us know
>>if this is the solution...has anybody else every left a motherboard on
>>"VAR" but used it with a monitor that doesn't support variable
>>intensity?
>
>I guess Steve's idea of moving the jumper is easier than finding a different
>working CPU!! This could very well be the only problem.
>
>>As far as I know only Cinematronics had rights to RipOff. They did
>>licsence it though to other manufacturers. I'm sure Vectorbeam was NOT
>>one of those manufacturers. Only Space War(s) was made both by
>>Vectorbeam and Cinematronics.
>
>When it comes to this kind of information I trust Steve more than anything
>I've
>heard, especially since he's the source of most of my information!!
>
>One thing I do know is that after Cinematronics re-merge with Vectorbeam,
>there
>were a lot of Vectorbeam parts around. It could be that you have a
>Vectorbeam
>monitor (and power supply, etc.) that was installed by Cinematronics using
>old
>Vectorbeam stock at hand.
>
>-Zonn
>
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Received on Wed Jan 28 12:23:41 1998