Trash80toHP_Mini
NIGHT STALKER
Let it be known, I have very little in the way of knowledge and no competency whatsoever to have a go at this at all, but what I do usually have I'd call a wicked, and truly twisted viewpoint that may or may not have merit in this instance.
I'm surveying the floor of the arena and it seems we've all been looking up at the cliff of the Compact A/B series (CC and AIOs) from the viewpoint of getting more out of the finely tuned pittance available from Apple's designs. Lets twist that around to a top down view of the systems which we know will be failing and have a look from the top of that heap to survey the slope to see what may be accomplished?
I'll bid on the starting point of something of which there may be no living example, the Flyback of the 17" Studio Display's CRT. That's utter insanity from the viewpoint of installing one in the bucket of a 128K, but it is a start. Where can we find a good dividing line? Maybe a 14/15" Trinitron flyback or that of the beloved 12" RGB? I have a sweet spot for that never seen in this life display, it's right atop the pet IIfx sitting next a monstrous 21" Precisionview.
If we can identify the sweet spot spec for the largest, most common, new Flyback salvageable CRT on its way into a death spiral we'll draw a line in the sand to start moving around. Powerful enough to run 5xxx shadow mask or 5xx Trinitron would be a good start maybe?
WAG here is that it will be easy enough to install a crazy spec flyback in a laid back mode on an A/B designed for even a 128K with a few components, achieving a wide range of preset states for spraying the backside of any CRT within its design spec with electrons?
If not, just put me out of my misery right now.
If so, @maceffects are you listening?
edit: thinking that an adapter plate might make one of these things a drop in replacement for some displays?
I'm surveying the floor of the arena and it seems we've all been looking up at the cliff of the Compact A/B series (CC and AIOs) from the viewpoint of getting more out of the finely tuned pittance available from Apple's designs. Lets twist that around to a top down view of the systems which we know will be failing and have a look from the top of that heap to survey the slope to see what may be accomplished?
I'll bid on the starting point of something of which there may be no living example, the Flyback of the 17" Studio Display's CRT. That's utter insanity from the viewpoint of installing one in the bucket of a 128K, but it is a start. Where can we find a good dividing line? Maybe a 14/15" Trinitron flyback or that of the beloved 12" RGB? I have a sweet spot for that never seen in this life display, it's right atop the pet IIfx sitting next a monstrous 21" Precisionview.
If we can identify the sweet spot spec for the largest, most common, new Flyback salvageable CRT on its way into a death spiral we'll draw a line in the sand to start moving around. Powerful enough to run 5xxx shadow mask or 5xx Trinitron would be a good start maybe?
WAG here is that it will be easy enough to install a crazy spec flyback in a laid back mode on an A/B designed for even a 128K with a few components, achieving a wide range of preset states for spraying the backside of any CRT within its design spec with electrons?
If not, just put me out of my misery right now.
If so, @maceffects are you listening?
edit: thinking that an adapter plate might make one of these things a drop in replacement for some displays?
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