Re: vector: 25" Amplifone tube DAG connector/spring?

From: Mark Shostak <shostak_at_augustmail.com>
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 15:40:28 EDT

Ah, how silly of me.
I couldn't ascertain it was vector from the information available.
How can you tell it goes to an Amplifone vector monitor?

> It's the original (highly prone to failure) HVT unit Atari used for the
> Amplifone monitor and some say is partly responsible for vector games
> becoming extinct. As the widespread failures kept occurring, operators came
> to think of all vector games as 'unreliable'.
> Anyway, my original post (only 49.95!) is meant to be ironic because even a
> new one is not worth buying at any price. It can take other parts of your
> monitor with it when it goes (and it will).
>
> See
>
> www.gamearchive.com/video/manufacturer/atari/vector/
> monitors/amplifone/amplifone_faq_1_2.pdf
>
> For more gory details / hearsay.
>
> -Douglas
>
>
> on 8/1/02 1:46 PM, Mark Shostak at shostak@augustmail.com wrote:
>
> > Um, what exactly does the HVT in that auction go to?
> > -Mark
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Chris Wopat <lists@falz.net>
> > To: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 5:23 PM
> > Subject: Re: VECTOR: 25" Amplifone tube DAG connector/spring?
> >
> >
> >> HVT:
> >>
> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2127048725
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Bret Pehrson" <bret@infowest.com>
> >> To: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 5:02 PM
> >> Subject: RE: VECTOR: 25" Amplifone tube DAG connector/spring?
> >>
> >>>> There's a NOS one up on e-bay right now. Only $49.99!
> >>>
> >>> One *what*??? DAG or HVT? I didn't see either in Arcade on eBay.
> >
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