Hi De Lorean00 -- I have been trying to give away an Advent VideoBeam 1000A CRT projector for years. Maybe you are the fellow who would want to give it a good home. The original post is here:
http://videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=271393. It's not quite as "vintage" as your great find, but it is half century old circa early 1970s, which is pretty vintage in my book (as am I!). If you have any interest in it, let me know and we can work something out in terms of getting it to you. Anyone else want this very impressive working beauty, it sits here waiting for you...longingly like a pup at the pound.
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Here is a youtube demo (not mine) which does give you a very good indication as to unit and he does have it in operation in a lit room. The image is quite bright, but in a darkened room, the picture is really spectacular giving the technology at the time. The narrator implies that there were very few of these units; actually they found a niche in the bar industry. Many sports bars installed these units. The circuitry is modular and as a service tech once explained to me, every circuit can be replaced on site. He said, short of a bomb exploding under it, it could be repaired without taking in to a shop. And like the model in this demo, mine is still operating flawlessly with a picture that belies its standard TV technology. Hook it up to a DVD player and it gives a very impressive 7ft diagonal image, albeit it letterbox bars for today's 16:9 authored content. It could be yours!
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CinemaDude
PS -- my unit is in better condition that this one -- no missing knobs and no chipped cabinet. I'm just sayin... My screen has legs so it doesn't need to be mounted on a wall, it can be free standing. That screen, BTW is a concave silver surface, the curve is matched to the image convergence so while the screen is curved to get all the light back to the seating area, the geometry of the image is not distorted...all lines on the curve remain straight. The curve, however almosts fully eliminates off axis hot spots.