Re: New Vector monitor project progress

Excellent! After looking around, It looks like P22 is used in about all
Wells Gardner monitors today (and on the Wells Gardner vector monitors), so
there should be no problem using any standard tube on Tempest.
Thanks,
James

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From: Rodger Boots <rlboots@cedar-rapids.net>
To: <vectorlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 6:47 AM
Subject: 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 07:08:14 1999