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Kevin Dady
Apr 2, 2012, 12:54:41 AM4/2/12
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I posted this first on the arduino forums, there is a thread talking
about the latest crap you bought BUT its apple // focused, that is if
you want a small screen that is freaking awesome!
...
our local goodwill has not been sucking at all this spring (you gotta
love spring cleaning) aside from their usual 100 clock radios, 40
George Foreman grills, and jack squat of nothing else I have been able
to pick up ...
a previously mentioned 40 gig TVio, which the drive went into my bench
machine and the box is in the process of becoming a 250GB closet NAS
(we dont need THAT much storage its around a 90GB glob between the two
of us, so that will work until I can get a pi, then I will expand it
up to 1 or 2 TB)
a previously mentioned 9 inch Sony trinitron for the spare room that I
can use while poking at tronics, or we both can use while using our
exercise machine (of death, dang that thing can wind me)
but this weekend I managed to scape up a CDRW / DVD / DVD + R for 2
bucks, which is very handy since my current bench machine came out of
the dumpster with its DVD-RW drive (intermittently) DOA and I have
been using a plain old CD-ROM drive ... and something that made me
stupid happy a 5.6 inch TFT LCD monitor.
The LCD monitor is a Audiovox model VBPEX64, and years ago when I
worked for a mobile audio/video WD they were about 200 bucks. Stereo,
Composite and SVIDEO in, dual headphone jacks out they were a module
to work with other Audiovox units, such as a portable DVD player, vcr,
or a aftermarket car sun vizor, or seat back units. There is an about
2 inch hinged foot with a basic analog I/O bus edge connector on it,
so you can pop it out of your dvd player, and hook it to the back of
your headrest, or whatnot.
Most importantly, this was on the edge of faking HD video, and has a
10 to 12Mhz bandwidth input, normal TV is about 6Mhz, so what? Well
about 10Mhz is what you need for old computer systems to display clear
video in text modes, and that is a HUGE freaking problem for Luddites
like me, you end up with a giant ass monitor thats 20+ years old and
on the edge of death for a pile of money, a security monitor for a
pile of money, A TV tuner card, which its not always convenient to
drag your system over to another computer just to see video, or a
normal TV which you can make out text in 40 columns with a little
squinting.
This thing however, is dead freaking on, its as good as the RGB
monitors from the day, and though its small, were dealing with a
MINIMUM of a font size being 8x8 pixels, and really its quite
comfortable to work on.
Prices seem to be 30-80 bucks, I paid 5, and it looks decent on my
semi-portable Apple // C ... epic win
Image of unit sitting on my //C (for other nerds, its a 1986 ROM 255
model, just a month or two away from the next rom version, which fixed
a few bugs, next to it is a 1986 Macintosh SE, 800k floppy 80Mb
(replacement) hard disk, 4 megs of ram, below that is a 1997 Macintosh
9600/300 with 26GB of storage, 256 megs of ram and a Radieon 7000 with
OS9, 10.2 and Debian, next to that is a stack of laptops, 150Mhz
Pentium MMX, 80 megs ram, the best LCD ever, 10 inch 1lb subnotebook,
12 inch pentium 90 crappy LCD 8 meg laptop looking for a home, and a
DEC PC386SL/25 4 meg VGA laptop featured on slashdot, sort of looking
for a home)
http://www.cheesefactory.us/apple2/audiovox_mon/PDR_0004.JPG
close up of 40 column text
http://www.cheesefactory.us/apple2/audiovox_mon/PDR_0009.JPG
closeup of 80 column text
http://www.cheesefactory.us/apple2/audiovox_mon/PDR_0010.JPG
AND this thing should rock with my recently acquired Trash80.... I R
Happy today, 3 weeks in a row goodwill does not SUCK, though it doesnt
make up for the three years worth OF sucking, its a start
about the latest crap you bought BUT its apple // focused, that is if
you want a small screen that is freaking awesome!
...
our local goodwill has not been sucking at all this spring (you gotta
love spring cleaning) aside from their usual 100 clock radios, 40
George Foreman grills, and jack squat of nothing else I have been able
to pick up ...
a previously mentioned 40 gig TVio, which the drive went into my bench
machine and the box is in the process of becoming a 250GB closet NAS
(we dont need THAT much storage its around a 90GB glob between the two
of us, so that will work until I can get a pi, then I will expand it
up to 1 or 2 TB)
a previously mentioned 9 inch Sony trinitron for the spare room that I
can use while poking at tronics, or we both can use while using our
exercise machine (of death, dang that thing can wind me)
but this weekend I managed to scape up a CDRW / DVD / DVD + R for 2
bucks, which is very handy since my current bench machine came out of
the dumpster with its DVD-RW drive (intermittently) DOA and I have
been using a plain old CD-ROM drive ... and something that made me
stupid happy a 5.6 inch TFT LCD monitor.
The LCD monitor is a Audiovox model VBPEX64, and years ago when I
worked for a mobile audio/video WD they were about 200 bucks. Stereo,
Composite and SVIDEO in, dual headphone jacks out they were a module
to work with other Audiovox units, such as a portable DVD player, vcr,
or a aftermarket car sun vizor, or seat back units. There is an about
2 inch hinged foot with a basic analog I/O bus edge connector on it,
so you can pop it out of your dvd player, and hook it to the back of
your headrest, or whatnot.
Most importantly, this was on the edge of faking HD video, and has a
10 to 12Mhz bandwidth input, normal TV is about 6Mhz, so what? Well
about 10Mhz is what you need for old computer systems to display clear
video in text modes, and that is a HUGE freaking problem for Luddites
like me, you end up with a giant ass monitor thats 20+ years old and
on the edge of death for a pile of money, a security monitor for a
pile of money, A TV tuner card, which its not always convenient to
drag your system over to another computer just to see video, or a
normal TV which you can make out text in 40 columns with a little
squinting.
This thing however, is dead freaking on, its as good as the RGB
monitors from the day, and though its small, were dealing with a
MINIMUM of a font size being 8x8 pixels, and really its quite
comfortable to work on.
Prices seem to be 30-80 bucks, I paid 5, and it looks decent on my
semi-portable Apple // C ... epic win
Image of unit sitting on my //C (for other nerds, its a 1986 ROM 255
model, just a month or two away from the next rom version, which fixed
a few bugs, next to it is a 1986 Macintosh SE, 800k floppy 80Mb
(replacement) hard disk, 4 megs of ram, below that is a 1997 Macintosh
9600/300 with 26GB of storage, 256 megs of ram and a Radieon 7000 with
OS9, 10.2 and Debian, next to that is a stack of laptops, 150Mhz
Pentium MMX, 80 megs ram, the best LCD ever, 10 inch 1lb subnotebook,
12 inch pentium 90 crappy LCD 8 meg laptop looking for a home, and a
DEC PC386SL/25 4 meg VGA laptop featured on slashdot, sort of looking
for a home)
http://www.cheesefactory.us/apple2/audiovox_mon/PDR_0004.JPG
close up of 40 column text
http://www.cheesefactory.us/apple2/audiovox_mon/PDR_0009.JPG
closeup of 80 column text
http://www.cheesefactory.us/apple2/audiovox_mon/PDR_0010.JPG
AND this thing should rock with my recently acquired Trash80.... I R
Happy today, 3 weeks in a row goodwill does not SUCK, though it doesnt
make up for the three years worth OF sucking, its a start
ict@ccess
Apr 2, 2012, 2:23:48 AM4/2/12
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Rob
magnusfalkirk
Apr 2, 2012, 3:03:41 PM4/2/12
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Kevin Dady
Apr 2, 2012, 8:07:38 PM4/2/12
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> how is the graphics for color accuracy and color bleed?
>
> Rob
Accuracy is pretty darn good, though a bit more saturated than a CRT,
>
> Rob
and I really cant tell about bleed, its a digital RGB screen
interpreting a analog signal, so there is some subpixel stuff (you can
see it in the 80 column image) but no half green pixels to the left or
anything, I will get a couple pictures with it in graphics modes
tonight
Kevin Dady
Apr 2, 2012, 8:02:25 PM4/2/12
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works fine on a 500Ma wall wart (ie it does not heat up) ... I think
the backlight is LED so its probably low.
Kevin Dady
Apr 4, 2012, 10:06:50 PM4/4/12
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eh still havent got pictures of graphics modes, been getting off work
late, but before the week is out
late, but before the week is out
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