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From: Jim Thompson on 14 Feb 2010 17:01 On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:40:06 -0800, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: [snip] > >Aggravated by the fact that you could not easily buy a spare HV flyback >transformer for a computer monitor. With TV sets they could be had for >$30-$60, usually. Ok, sometimes you had to pretend you were a TV repair >pro and don a white coat, or send a friend to buy it. Back when I bothered to repair my own stuff I'd just call my father. He would recite the chassis number and the failure mechanism, and send me the part, along with exact instructions ;-) ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
From: Joerg on 14 Feb 2010 17:43 Jim Thompson wrote: > On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:40:06 -0800, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> > wrote: > > [snip] >> Aggravated by the fact that you could not easily buy a spare HV flyback >> transformer for a computer monitor. With TV sets they could be had for >> $30-$60, usually. Ok, sometimes you had to pretend you were a TV repair >> pro and don a white coat, or send a friend to buy it. > > Back when I bothered to repair my own stuff I'd just call my father. > He would recite the chassis number and the failure mechanism, and send > me the part, along with exact instructions ;-) > I can picture that. "Now, son, listen up! This ain't no chip design where you type something into a computation machine and lean back, this is real work ..." My dad regularly gave me lectures when I, for example, showed up to our oh-so-much-fun oil furnace repair sessions. Armed with nothing but a pipe wrench and a hammer. "You electrical guys aren't supposed to handle every screw with a pipe wrench ..." -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: krw on 14 Feb 2010 20:37 On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:01:26 -0700, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote: >On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:40:06 -0800, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> >wrote: > >[snip] >> >>Aggravated by the fact that you could not easily buy a spare HV flyback >>transformer for a computer monitor. With TV sets they could be had for >>$30-$60, usually. Ok, sometimes you had to pretend you were a TV repair >>pro and don a white coat, or send a friend to buy it. > >Back when I bothered to repair my own stuff I'd just call my father. >He would recite the chassis number and the failure mechanism, and send >me the part, along with exact instructions ;-) THe guy I worked for in college was like that. He'd get telephone calls all day. The caller would give him the make, model, and symptom and he'd recite the chassis numbers, parts to change (including part numbers for the common stuff) back to the person calling. Amazing.
From: Michael A. Terrell on 15 Feb 2010 12:16 Joerg wrote: > > As Spehro mentioned, the real danger was tweaking the frame rate and > number of lines. Losing a $200 graphics card is one thing but having the > flyback xfmr of a $2k monitor go phseeeeoooouuu ... phsssst ... *PHOOF* > was quite another. The original monochrome monitor used on the early IBM PCs would die if it lost horizontal drive. That is why PC/XT power supplies had a switched power outlet for monitor. I had a couple damaged by customers that way. Needless to say, the replacement monitors were more ID10T proof. -- Greed is the root of all eBay.
From: JosephKK on 15 Feb 2010 20:13
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:45:47 -0800, Pieyed Piper <pieyedPiper(a)thebongshopattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: >On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:25:22 GMT, Peter McMullin <pmcmullin(a)gmail.com> >wrote: > >>And, they're all available in the files area. Life is good. >>OrCad lives on, and produces.You don't need dosbox under XP. Don't know >>about W7. Sorry if this does not address the OP's question directly, but >>actually it does. > > > DOSBox allows one to use vesa drivers, and it also can translate >between a driver and your actual card, which almost always differs these >days. > > A straight XP DOS window, which not everyone has, does not necessarily >allow such behavior. Very few of the cards in the list are still in use >at all. Even though I own a few, that is beside the point. XP doesn't >run on the machines that those cards do run on. I expect that the "support" for the short list of cards amounts to providing emulations of them. Not a promise to use them. |