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I picked up this 26" NEC monitor in the late 90's, I'm thinking 1998/99. I traded the guy a Tempest spinner for it. So at that time it seemed an even trade, probably around $40. It has a manufacturer's date of April 1988.

I stashed it out in the barn and forgot about it for 25 years. Until yesterday.

I think these monitors were most likely used in trade shows or the like back then. It doesn't have a RF tuner or anything like that, it only has video/audio I/O.

I see it has this 34-pin RGB connector, so after poking around for a bit, I figured out where the actual RGBS pins are.

So I fabri-cobbled together an old floppy drive cable and jamma harness to a TPG... This monitor actually works!

Does anyone know what a VTR connector is? Base on the vintage of this monitor, I'm thinking it means Video Tape Recorder? Would this be a NEC proprietary or Japanese connector? I haven't seen this before.


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