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Originally Posted by Sandy G
We ran into the same stuff end of the 90s-early Aughts when a bunch of the '80s swoopy-hi-tech gizmos' super-duper monitors started bitin' the dust...Big Fun tryin' to find parts for a 15-yr old obsolete "Dedicated" monitor-And a lot of the places we'd bought the stuff from originally had thoughtfully added their own little "Tweaks" so you had to go back to them & buy one at 4-5X the price of a std monitor...
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Reminds me of a stupid little company I worked for around 1979. We made machines that would take the video output of a cat scanner in a hospital, and expose it onto Xray film. As doctors back then were used to looking at and handling film and storing it that way too. All this machine was was a modified B&W video monitor (the kind intended for security systems), a lens and shutter, and an electronic controller using an 8060 microprocessor. Not 8080, this was a National Semiconductor 8060. And the mods to the monitor would turn off (blank) the CRT unless a picture was to be captured, and some circuits to allow an exact number of frames to be unblanked. To avoid that banding you get when taking pictures of a CRT TV set showing a picture. I think this company folded years ago, for laughs look at ebay for stuff from "Matrix Instruments".
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Matrix-Instr...item5aea00fa0b
A friend there summed it as "A standard issue job at a typical company that made a boring product".