RE: On the subject of Wintrons...

Does such a beast even exist?

I've only heard of two that ever died: one was covered by the manufacturer
and returned for a replacement; the other is just hearsay as far as I've
ever been able to determine...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org
> [mailto:owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org] On Behalf Of Joe
> Sent: Friday, December 5, 2003 3:22 PM
> To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
> Subject: VECTOR: On the subject of Wintrons...
>
>
> Does anyone have a dead wintron they'd be willing to donate for
> dissection purposes...
>
> Thanks,
> JB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org
> [mailto:owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org] On Behalf Of Tim Johnson
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 11:33 AM
> To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
> Subject: RE: VECTOR: Arcadeshop goodies
>
> Hello Joel,
> Ole buddie, ole pal. If you are interested in selling your
> Wintron for a
>
> reasonable cost and can certify its operation, I would be highly
> interested.
> As you are certainly aware they are not cheap (like me) ;-).
> I am really
> not
> in the financial position for the investment of a new one but would
> settle
> for a used Wintron as my S.W has not been powered up since I
> bought it,
> 5
> years ago.
> I have been kicking around the idea of an Arcadeshop board. They even
> put me
> in touch with the designer and he said there was a
> possibility he could
> provide me with a schematic if I bought one.
>
> Still holding out
>
> Jim
>
> >From: "Joel Rosenzweig" <joel.rosenzweig@verizon.net>
> >Reply-To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
> >To: <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
> >Subject: VECTOR: Arcadeshop goodies
> >Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 23:09:11 -0500
> >
> >I received an Ampliphone HV board from Arcadeshop today, and
> installed
> that
> >into my Star Wars. Everything worked great. It's a very nice unit.
> The
> >unfortunate part was that I already had a Wintron HV unit in my
> original HV
> >board, and the HV supply failed a couple of weeks ago. I haven't had
> time
> >to troubleshoot it, so I decided to try out the Arcadeshop board as a
> quick
> >fix. Now, I have the fun of figuring out why my other HV board has
> failed.
> > I'll have to save that for another day.
> >
> >I also ordered a Star Wars CPO and the Asteroids monitor bezel. Both
> look
> >excellent. I learned something today, too. I have two Star Wars
> machines,
> >both with good looking CPO's, but one of them is much darker
> than the
> >other. The only difference between the two, is that the
> darker one has
> an
> >extra part number, V-AD1195. Both have part number 040380-03 REV.A.
> The
> >ones from Arcadeshop have the V-AD1195, and match the coloring of my
> darker
> >CPO. I had always assumed that the darker CPO was just
> darkened by the
>
> >elements. Now it appears that at least two different production runs
> were
> >made. I prefer the look of the lighter CPO, but the dark one is OK.
> It is
> >just harder to see the details.
> >
> >Joel-
>
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