Re: B/W X/Y?

On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 10:00:57 -0700 (PDT), Andrew Wilson <andrew@hyperbole.com>
wrote:

>
>>You probably could, but Cinimetronics buried other stuff in their monitor
>>chassis (like all the DAC/vector circuits).
>>
>>Cinimetronics also combined all the HV stuff and the DAC stuff on the same
>>PC board. You could try to split all this stuff apart to use a WG, but it
>>wouldn't be fun...
>
> So, did Cinematronics build the monitors themselves? Were 3rd-party vector
>monitors (like Wells Gardner) not available then?

Part of the patent that Larry Rosenthal received for his game design was how the
monitor worked.

He designed the game hardware from the ground up, including the monitor. The
software was a port from the existing PDP-1, 8, 11, etc. Spacewar game.

-Zonn
Received on Thu Apr 29 14:32:27 1999