Hi Dean
I don't get a chance to put my 2 cents in very much on the list, so I'll
tell you what I know (and will not be upset if I am corrected :-)
In the B/W vector days, electrohome and WG both produced B/W vector
monitors and they were drop in replacments for omega race. Some of the
other B/W games did things a little differently, however, like armour
attack, and those monitors I do not believe to be drop in replacements, as
the signals from the main cpu board were different. I do not know about B/W
tubes.
As far as colour goes, my buddy Paul and I put a raster tube from a
disco monitor (used a disco, cause those monitors died an early death, so
the tubes left laying around had little or no burn, but almost any raster
tube will work) in a WG 6100 and put it in a tempest cabaret. The picture
was amazing, but that is where the 90 and 100 degrees comes in. The WG
tube is phsically shorter than the raster tube, beacuse of the angle the
glass comes back to the neck at. While our tube change worked in a tempest
cabaret, there may be space limitations in an upright, not sure. Even in
the cabaret, we had to use standoffs to move the HV cage back so it would
not interfere with the tube.
There does exist some vector archives somewhere, but I do not remember
where. In there Paul's writeup on the replacment can be found. Hopefully
someone will point us there again. (was it Dave, and something like arlo)
Google returns....
http://www.arlo.net/vectorlist/ <http://www.arlo.net/vectorlist/>
Paul writeup
http://www.arlo.net/vectorlist/archive/9811/0075.html
<http://www.arlo.net/vectorlist/archive/9811/0075.html>
Hope this helps
Mike
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