WindDrake
Well-known member
Hey all.
Did some searching, and haven't been able to come up with an answer on this one. Me and a buddy at work have been hashing this one out for a bit, and I feel like we're missing something.
Now, I'll preface this by saying I've never had the pleasure of diving into the guts of a Vector display. Only raster monitors.
On a Monochrome Vector, the monitor's deflection is directly driven by the deflection board, along with the Z-Axis (Intensity), right?
On a raster, you've got the Horizontal and Vertical Scan Oscillators hooked up in line with everything else.
Is there any technical reason you couldn't use a B&W "Raster" display, say out of a TV or some such, and disconnect the Horizontal and Vertical oscillators, then hook the H/V Amplifier Inputs to the appropriate deflection controls on the deflection board?
As a side note, if you drove all of the color guns in a Color Raster from the same signal line (Creating White), wouldn't this be similar in appearance? (Similar, not the same! I know the Shadow Mask gets in the way.)
Thanks for fielding my questions.
Did some searching, and haven't been able to come up with an answer on this one. Me and a buddy at work have been hashing this one out for a bit, and I feel like we're missing something.
Now, I'll preface this by saying I've never had the pleasure of diving into the guts of a Vector display. Only raster monitors.
On a Monochrome Vector, the monitor's deflection is directly driven by the deflection board, along with the Z-Axis (Intensity), right?
On a raster, you've got the Horizontal and Vertical Scan Oscillators hooked up in line with everything else.
Is there any technical reason you couldn't use a B&W "Raster" display, say out of a TV or some such, and disconnect the Horizontal and Vertical oscillators, then hook the H/V Amplifier Inputs to the appropriate deflection controls on the deflection board?
As a side note, if you drove all of the color guns in a Color Raster from the same signal line (Creating White), wouldn't this be similar in appearance? (Similar, not the same! I know the Shadow Mask gets in the way.)
Thanks for fielding my questions.