Re: New Vector monitor project progress

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That "P22" you see at the end of the CRT part number is the
phosphor used in the tube. P22 is the standard home TV
phosphor. It is a "medium" decay rate type that works pretty good
at 60 Hz refresh (or higher), but flickers pretty bad on anything
slower.

James Nelson wrote:

> I'm a little concerned about the refresh rate:
> If I use a non-vector CRT, the phosphors may not glow long enough to make
> the picture tolerable to look at. Does anyone know the refresh rate of
> Tempest or Star Wars (and don't tell me there is no such thing because there
> is.) It may vary from screen to screen. If nobody knows, I'll break out
> the scope and find out myself.
>
> My guess is that it's somewhere around 30 - 60 Hz, but I need to know.
>
> -James
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Zonn <zonn@zonn.com>
> To: <vectorlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 6:32 PM
> Subject: Re: New Vector monitor project progress
>
> > On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 18:16:13 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> > >It's looking like a good choice is a new 19" WG monitor K7000 series I
> think.
> > >The specs say standard horizontal resolution of 640 I think that's good
> enough.
> > >Do we need to mess with "medium resolution" monitors? I'm not familiar
> with them.
> >
> > Yes!! Medium resolution rules! And if you want the proper
> > replacement for your Star Wars, it'll have to be medium res.
> >
> > The only difference (as far as X/Y goes, since scan rate will be
> > meaningless at this point) is the pixel size of the CRT, whatever you
> > come up with for the low res, should work the same on med res.
> > monitors. You might want to start with low res for *experiments*
> > since I'm sure these are cheaper..
> >
> > -Zonn
> >
> >
Received on Tue Oct 19 06:08:08 1999