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I was shocked to find an Acorn Computer monitor in the US

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Acorn is the company that came up with the ARM instruction set used in billions of devices. In the 80s they were making home computers like the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron but these machines were primarily sold in the UK and internationally. It seems their efforts to release their computers in North America mostly failed. So, I was pretty shocked when I saw a Acorn Computer branded monitor here in the US. Let's take a look at this monitor and see if I can get it working.
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Acron RGB Vision III
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400 Unicorn Park Drive
Woburn, MA 01801
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@PXAbstraction Год назад

Fun fact about the branding: Kaga Electronics was Taxan's parent company. Taxan was a consumer facing brand they used for products they manufactured, as Kaga is somewhat of a conglomerate. Taxan was closed down in 1991. Even funner fact: Taxan had a subsidiary called Naxat Soft (Taxan backwards) that released a bunch of games in the 16-bit era, mostly for the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16. Kaga is still alive and kicking today.

@michaking3734 Год назад

fun fact ,german kids call poo..,kaga😅

@djsquarewave Год назад

Came down here to mention this! Taxan actually released several games for the NES in the US (I had a copy of Star Soldier, myself) but that business stopped before the Japanese Naxat Soft division really hit its stride. It wasn't actually until years later that I found out they made anything other than video games! Blew my mind the first time I saw a Taxan branded monitor.

@organiccold Год назад

Caga that sounds the same as kaga means to have a dump in Portuguese 😅😅😅

@organiccold Год назад

@@michaking3734 same in Portuguese 😅😅

@roppongi765 Год назад

@@michaking3734 No that would be "Kaka"

@aoughton Год назад

Wow, I've actually been to Unicorn Park Drive as it's just down the road from me. The BBC Micro was my childhood computer, so I'm amazed to see their US office was so close to where I live now!

@rickedwards6150 Год назад

I’ve driven by that building several times. Having lived in the general vicinity, I was amused by the way Adrian pronounced Woburn. It was a good try.

@hjalfi Год назад

Acorn did actually make a US version of the BBC Micro. As part of the PAL to NTSC conversion, all the video modes got changed from 256 scanlines to 200 scanlines --- 32 to 25 rows of text. Naturally, even though it was possible to query the screen size through the rather good OS, nobody did, with the result that almost no software written for the UK version of the machine would run on the US version. I suspect that Acorn were the only people surprised when the machine completely failed to sell.

@melanierhianna Год назад

It was quite a bit different inside because of federal RF requirements, not only shielding but the board was layed out differently. In fact that's where the BBC B+ came from, it was an updated B which could comply with multiple region RF requirements.

@adriansdigitalbasement2 Год назад

Interesting tidbits! Thanks for sharing.

@kwanchan6745 Год назад

@@adriansdigitalbasement2 surprised you didn't pair this with the bbc micro you picked up previously

@Dukefazon Год назад

10:46 - not just the 80's, the Nintendo Wii manual also had similar cute drawings. 24:28 - in the final moment it started to move a little bit, maybe it's on one end of it's scale and not that sensitive there.

@jaycee1980 Год назад

Interesting to see what you guys across the pond got... here in the UK, Acorn computers typically shipped with a monitor from Microvitec - such as the iconic "CUB" series which are pretty much always seen with BBC Micro's especially in schools. Later Acorn monitors (for the Archimedes) were typically either Microvitec or Philips - the Philips ones were pretty much the CM8833 chassis

@tomgidden Год назад

My dad was head of computing in a Cambridge school, and when we got our first Archimedes -- A305, on launch day -- there weren't any suitable monitors available. So, his technician went about converting one of the Microvitec Cubs from TTL RGB to analogue. We had loads of Cubs and smaller green-screen monitors for the Beebs. I had a plastic-cased Cub for my own Beeb at home -- not sure if it was branded as a Cub, but it was pretty much a Cub 1431 in a curved beige case.

@jaycee1980 Год назад

@@tomgidden Yep the CUBs were highly adaptable to all sorts of input formats - the metal boxed ones had the input circuitry on a card IIRC which could be easily swapped out for various input formats

@wembleyford Год назад

Love it when Acorn kit gets some love. Honestly, while I will always love my c64 moer than anything else - especially for games - I think the BBC Micro was by a long long way the most capable 8 bit computer - certainly in the UK. It's BASIC, especially, was second to none and has such remarkably extendable hardware. School (back in the eighties) had suites of the things all networked up to fileservers. Not something you'd have seen with anything else till PCs in the nineties.

@atkelar Год назад

At some time, the number of ICs, diodes and similar components seemed to be a sales criteria. The Revox pre-amp I restored had a similar paragraph in the owners' manual. It might be a carryover from the tube days, when the "number of tubes" could indicate a certain design quality.

@AntonyTCurtis Год назад

I have one of those monitors... I was also surprised to find it. When I was a kid, my dad had a Taxan monitor which he originally had for an Apple computer and was later for CGA.

@GadgetUK164 Год назад

What a lovely monitor - it looks new inside!!!

@chriscooper2395 Год назад

As a kid in the uk growing up in the 80s and 90s I love seeing anything from acorn being alive these days. Thanks for this video really close to my heart and probably why I’m in IT these days. Thanks buddy. Really good video

@xliquidflames Год назад

It looks like that control _was_ working. 24:29 the screen does wiggle a little and I think you may have just looked away at just the wrong time and missed it moving ever so slightly. Right after you say, "I definitely have the tool in there." Just as you're saying the word "there" it starts moving. It really moves a lot more as you're saying, "This is probably a fault." Then when you start saying "yeah nothing..." it stops. It is definitely moving the picture a little. So maybe just turning it from the min to the max got things loosened up so the slug could move and it really started working.

@tedthrasher9433 Год назад

I’d love to see how the picture looked when connected to an analog RGB source, like an Apple IIGS. The RGB monitor that Apple sold with the IIGS was so amazing at the time with being able to display crisp 80 column text AND color.

@charlesseyle7784 Год назад

I remember pictures like that from our Nissan Maxima owner's manual as a boy.

@adriansdigitalbasement2 Год назад

Yeah! We had a 1989 Nissan Maxima and I recall the manual had loads of those pictures too.

@volvo09 Год назад

@@adriansdigitalbasement2 loved the late 80's maximas.

@twocvbloke Год назад

Certainly a decent find there for sure, and very different to the Microvitec Cub monitors we had to endure (very loud flybacks, especialy for us young 'uns who had to endure them with our then-full hearing range!!!), would have much preferred these over the Cub monitors, but the latter were probably much cheaper for the government of the time to stump up for, even if they strained our developing eyes and ears... :P

@MechanicaMenace Год назад

They were also from a (then) British manufacturer which was important to the UK government at the time. Microvitec did make some amazing kit though. The pic on the Cub was best in class for a while (very important for the BBC) and the much lauded Atari ST/Mega ST/TT "hi res" monochrome monitors were all actually Microvitec.

@adriansdigitalbasement2 Год назад

Heh yeah -- seemed like back then we just all had to put up with the sound these old monitors made --- or just not watch TV or use computers :-)

@charlesjmouse Год назад

An actual US model rather than an import! I wouldn't have suspected that such a beast would exist, but here it is. FWIW: At least here in the UK Acorn monitors were usually models rebranded from top of the range devices from reputable manufacturers - I've still got the AFK85 multisync that came with my first RiscPC, working just as well as the day I got it.

@Renville80 Год назад

Another issue when trying to adjust a coil with a metallic tool, if it contains ferrous metal, it will change the inductance of the coil while it is inserted, making accurate adjustment impossible (and that's before considering residual magnetism).

@Chrisa850 Год назад

The connector is an EIAJ-8. It was commonly used on 70's vintage Sony VTRs.

@bobblum5973 Год назад

That's it! I was trying to recall the name of it, it's been years.

@Bobbias Год назад

Happy to see someone named it in the comments. Less happy at how far I had to scroll before I saw it.

@RayBrooks0 Год назад

I recently picked up an Acorn AKF17 to use with my Amiga 600. Connected via RGB, it's *gorgeous*

@MissAdventuresWithMacs Год назад

I love the dark rich display on this 😍

@williamsquires3070 Год назад

Yes, the little block with the HV wire going to the anode cap is a tripler (most likely, a Cockroft-Walton voltage multiplier) which has a series of diodes and capacitors in a sort of ladder configuration. It works directly off the AC from the flyback, so doesn’t need a separate HV rectifier like old tube TVs had. I believe this was done so they could design the flyback to have fewer windings, and thus cheaper and more reliable as there was less risk of arcing between the windings of the secondary. The downside of this design, is that the focus and contrast controls (potentiometers) were often baked into the same potted block, so you couldn’t fix them if the controls became dirty (so no DeOxit F5 to the rescue!) ☹️

@ForgottenLore Год назад

Good memories of when the UK was still somewhat relevant in computers.

@j__r0d Год назад

excited to see what the Apple II RGB stuff looks like on this guy! also, saying "I'm completely shocked" while touching the inside of the CRT...well played! :P

@bobblum5973 Год назад

I noticed his phrasing as well, but wasn't sure if it was intentional or not! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

@adriansdigitalbasement2 Год назад

LOL!

@maxtornogood Год назад

Love it when a simple reflow does the trick!

@georgefriday4872 Год назад

This monitor absoulutly is a rebranded Taxan monitor; Used to work for the UK distributer of Acorn computers. There was a short period when we where peeling off the Taxan labels and sticking on the Acorn labels when Taxan had supply / demand issues with the Acorn branded version. This was for a conract with the home office providing BBC computers & Econet into the education centres in prisons in the UK as part of the computer initiative of the late 80's.

@godzzwrath Год назад

i love that you actually go in and tell us what you're doing while you work on it, puts the work into perspective. love from central oregon

@shmehfleh3115 Год назад

I used to have a Taxan CGA monitor that was gifted to me, along with a IBM 5160. It was kind of a cool monitor: It had a monochrome mode like the Apple II color composite monitor. But it also had a bunch of dip switches on the back that let you select green-on-black, amber-on-black or white-on-blue. I wish I still had that monitor, but alas, that was over 30 years ago.

@wearwolf2500 Год назад

The PC-DOS 3.30 manual has a bunch of pictures of a bird working with the computer. It's amazing.

@freeculture Год назад

I have it in Spanish (with disks, etc). I can confirm the presence of a yellow bird and text has color too. Those were the days i guess.

@deplinenoise Год назад

The auto industry term “badge engineering” comes to mind :)

@SparksNZeros Год назад

what a beautiful thing, im genuinely jealous, i have an Acorn AKF12 myself but would love an AKF30. this looks very similar to later 'CUB' model monitors to go with the BBC Micro after they moved from the boxy CCTV monitor appearance

@Zeem4 Год назад

The boxy metal Cub monitors and the curved plastic ones were available side-by-side and were just part of the range of options that Microvitec sold. I think the metal ones were popular with schools because they were tough. Microvitec was making the metal box monitors well into the early 2000s but with different internals and SVGA resolution.

@twilliamc3 Год назад

Thanks for sharing! It comes across beautifully on camera.

@paulstubbs7678 Год назад

Wow is that a clean unit, that focus pot assembly was usually quite black dust covered by the time they hit my repair bench back then. As for the dark part been too dark, give the screen pot a tweak to bring up the background a bit, maybe that'll make it a bit better for you.

@adriansdigitalbasement2 Год назад

I actually tried -- it's odd the issue seems to be it lacks a contrast control, so really the white levels are too hig compared to black levels. I need to take a closer look at the circuit to see if I can reduce the whtie level a little so I can up the brightness for better grayscale performance.

@taffeylewis Год назад

I remeber one of my first "I.T." jobs was at TAXAN here in Bracknell, UK. Basically, removing Euro plugs from mains leads and fitting UK 3 pins. LOL. I won't forget how heavy those monitors were though :-) Nice to see that Acorns grew on the other side of the pond too.

@TheUAoB Год назад

I wondered why I was familiar with Taxan even though I can't remember seeing one if their products. I also live and grew up in Bracknell, so I probably saw thei logo on their building hundreds of times, along with the other big computer names that based their UK operations here!

@franksemi_modular Год назад

Haha that one of those 'poor man's scart' connections😂 Better quality though🙂 - I remember I from the NEC as it says.

@franksemi_modular Год назад

I remember that I had a switch box for those connectors and had some kind of faders so you fade the colors on and out like it was ment for production or something like that. Not exactly sure about that but I got an NEC (not sure about the 8001) but even keyboard was made of metal and was so heavy. They came from a bank when they got new equipment. Those where the "client" machines, but the "mainframe" part filled up a hole garage 😅

@Funkylogic Год назад

That hygroscopic acrylic staking compound has always been a bugbear. It turns from a tan to a dark brown colour and becomes electrically conductive and causes all sorts of issues. Had this friend that bought a whole pallet of down light buck converters and they could possibly start a fire. Most recently found that gunk in this GW insteak 3504 psu had to recap it and scratch of all the copper sulphate that stuff had caused.

@pkneeyahx Год назад

At 2:15. My Sony PVM monitor has one of those connections labelled as VTR.

@datassetteuser356 Год назад

Pretty nice little monitor, awesome! The colors look so bright 🤩👌

@kaitlyn__L Год назад

Heck yeah, a crossover between old Acorn stuff and CRT tinkering! Entertainment purposes fulfilled :)

@richardpurcella7206 Год назад

NEC PC8001A was indeed sold in USA. I have one in my collection, but without an appropriate monitor. It is TTL RGB, 8 colors.

@naysmith5272 Год назад

Adrian, if you ever found an American BBC B that would be a doozy.

@WilliamHostman Год назад

Had a JCPenney branded TV/Monitor with the 8-pin RGB rectangular connector; we used it with a Laser 128ex. The cable was off the rack.

@BartKliebert Год назад

That lazy Susan is an excellent addition to the Basement!

@Vaskomyr Год назад

Gorgeous little screen. Definitely makes me want a crt for my PC again. Just have a 9" JVC bvm and a couple 19" Sony and JVC TV's that I got for free but in great condition surprisingly.

@ceebee23 Год назад

Now you need an Acorn computer!!!!

@deniseunicorn Год назад

Oh hey! 400 Unicorn Park Drive? Notch one win for us unicorns! :)

@Wormetti Год назад

I was on edge watching this, based on the title, I thought you might get zapped. I’m relieved that’s not what you meant 😂

@martywhiskersdoggity9392 11 месяцев назад

this looks like my first crt, for my C64 ....TAXAN label, but also works for a early dos computer, has the same holders for a the flat acrylic panel

@mwk1 Год назад

Interesting fact is that TAXAN was also a game dev for the NES for some time in between '80 and '90 :-)

@KAPTKipper Год назад

A 82A colour correction filter cools the ambient light entering the lens by 200° kelvin by adding blue to the overall exposure.

@BottIsNotABot Год назад

Love the look of that monitor, would love to see it paired up with a BBC in a future video!

@krnivoro1972 Год назад

Adrian, try that face image at 25:42 with composite output. AFAIK is designed to be seen that way. It'll blow your mind (even more).

@professor-josh Год назад

Nice, the film exposure sticker tickled one of my other interests, film photography. Love it when worlds collide. A half-second exposure means you're gonna need a tripod so the picture won't be fuzzy. Also "Vision III" is a film stock from Kodak, nice coincidence.

@tookeydookey Год назад

Cool monitor! I love tech that we never get in the U.S.!😁👌

@fumthings Год назад

surely the inductance will be highest when the slug is in the coil, coming out from top or bottom will only be lower inductance.

@yosi1989 Год назад

7:40 The 8001 and 8801 are sold as 8001A/8801A in the U.S.

@Clavichordist Год назад

I know exactly where that is located. Unicorn Park is located on a former golf course that was situated next to Interstate 93 just off the Montvale Avenue exit. The entrance is located right next to the I-93 northbound entrance.

@dglcomputers1498 Год назад

As has been said until the release of the Archimedes range it was rare to see an acorn branded monitor, generally we had either the metal cased Microvitec CUB or a Plastic cased Philips. Acorn generally used RGB with composite sync, so similar to analogue RGB over SCART, I can't remember if it's digital or not but I would guess it was analogue so it was somewhat broadcast compatible. Those Japanese video connectors can have RGB on them, there was a Sharp monitor that is mentioned in the manual for the Roland S330 that uses that style connector for RGB video.

@melanierhianna Год назад

BBC Micro RGB was digital 5V. The 32 bit machines were analogue.

@dglcomputers1498 Год назад

@@melanierhianna In the end I thought it might be digital, I don't remember much about the Model B I had in the late 90's/00's though I did later acquire a few Archimedes machines from school that unfortunately broke, annoying as I had about 3 A7000's at one point 😞with genuine monitor, keyboard and even had a compatible Canon BJC600e and Fastrax PCB software, luckily the A7000 used PS/2 keyboard and mice so any three button PS/2 mouse will work. I did have a SCART/DIN Acorn monitor that I temporarily used with my Roland S330 though I now just use a SCART adaptor with either a SCART LCD TV or via a RGB SCART to HDMI adaptor.

@dre52 Год назад

I recognize Taxan due to playing a few of their developed/published games on the NES as a kid in the 80's. I never knew they did hardware, or even existed outside of videogames.

@CossieChris Год назад

Adrian, I'm one of your UK fans with a love of Acorn kit. I have an Acorn Electron which needs some TLC and would go well with this monitor, you're totally welcome to it if you'd like it.

@adriansdigitalbasement2 Год назад

Thanks Chris -- I luckily have an Electron already (donated by another viewer) so it'll be making an appearance on the channel soon.

@StevenIngram Год назад

Wow, that Planet X3 splash screen really pops.

@_droid Год назад

That's a really clean piece of gear you got there, nice! Maybe it was used in a lab/hospital with filtered air?

@richardkelsch3640 Год назад

My High School in Santee (San Diego), CA had Acorns.

@nickolaswilliams935 Год назад

Doubler and tripler modules contain diodes, so they also rectify.

@LotoTheHero Год назад

What a cool little monitor!

@octacilioalvares5879 Год назад

I would love to see you exploring more about mode 2 and 3.

@adriansdigitalbasement2 Год назад

Yes, will do! Defintiely on my list now I have this beauty.

@seancurtin6103 Год назад

I'd like to see it in analog mode on an Amiga or something. I used to pick up old monitors back in the 90's at auctions because I was on a quest for the best monitor to use with my Amiga 1200. I had at least one Sony with that funky Japanese connector on it. It was definitely wired for RGB. I think I just replaced it with a properly wired DB9. Scored a massive monochrome workstation monitor that I never could get to sync to any computer I had, a HUGE cube-shaped 24" 15khz analog RGB monitor like the kind they used for timetables in airports. It had a little drawer that pulled out with all the adjustment pots. I hacked a Commodore 1300 genlock to be a standalone composite to RGB converter and we used it as a TV in my college apartment. Got it for 5 bucks because nobody wanted to carry it out it was so heavy. I eventually did strike gold with a Mitsubishi multisync that would take pretty much anything I threw at it. Don't remember the model.

@jmaloney619 Год назад

My high school in San Diego used Acorn computers. Pretty nifty units back in the 80's.

@xrayspx8725 Год назад

In the depths of the 2001 web bubble crash, I had an interview in that Unicorn Park building with the fly-by-nite'est place, they wanted someone to be a Senior Admin for their "servers" that live in on-site construction trailers. It was like $25/hour with the job site being wherever the job site is in Mass. I ran and didn't look back. I did consult for some super sketchy players in those lean years though, phoof.

@channex8179 Год назад

These old Acorn branded monitors are great monitors as are the old CUB branded ones.

@raycreveling1583 Год назад

I've worked on many Japanese knitting machines from the 80's, including one I have interface with my 2021 MacBook Pro. The manuals have similar cartoons.

@Xsses Год назад

Finding an Elektronika computer in the US would be even more bizarre, which is actually kinda sad because those things were PDP-11 clones, so there are very interesting from the design perspective. Elektronika BK - home PDP-11; Elektronika 40 - Tetris machine.

@andrewsuvorow6818 Год назад

PDP-11 instruction set was very popular in the USSR, but not all CPU's were clones. K581 Soviet chipset was the exact clone of the LSI-11/23 and K1811 chipset was the clone of the DEC Professional 350. But BK0010 used K1801VM1 and it was not a direct clone of any DEC chip. It differs from ther DEC CPU more or less like NEC V20 differs from 8088. Same were K1801VM2 and K1801VM3. There were hadhard version of these chip and CMOS low power versions and they also were not the clones. Electronica 60 used the K581 and was very similar to LSI-11 but not BK0010

@klaatubob Год назад

Btw, Woburn is not pronounced Woe-Burn. It's pronounced Woo-Burn. :) It's right down the road from me.

@volvo09 Год назад

I used to live in MA, left last year, I love the pronunciations of some of these towns that get non natives.

@kaitlyn__L Год назад

@@volvo09 definitely reflecting the England in New England!

@rhinox3474 Год назад

Lol i knew when I heard him say that someone would correct it lol.

@mattj65816 Год назад

I worked there for a couple years right out of college. "Woo-burn? Are you kidding me?"

@bmartin427 Год назад

It looked like the horizontal size control was maybe just starting to have an effect right as you gave up on it. Maybe it had already been turned too far as you said and you got it back in place?

@adriansdigitalbasement2 Год назад

I don't think so -- I turned it endlessly, I just edited that part out of the video. No one wanted to see me fiddling with it for several minutes. :-)

@criggie Год назад

I wonder if the Veteran's link is that it was to run some UK-based Acorn software, perhaps listing Commonweath veterans ? And a photo of the screen was the only way they had to do a dump to paper?

@cashawX10 Год назад

Never seen anything like this in the UK, infact I am not sure if Acorn ever branded a monitor during their 80's heyday.. Perhaps when the Archimedes came along. The de-facto standard monitor for the BBC series was the Microvitec Cub which was a superb and simple monitor.

@gslug1 Год назад

The Master Compact had a branded monitor (a Philips CM8533 iirc), though the logo on the faceplate was a Master series "M", rather than Acorn. The same monitor was supplied with the A305/310/400 series, with Archimedes branding. I don't recall anything having plain Acorn branding until the A5000 came along in the early '90s.

@SimonEllwood Год назад

I am pretty sure there were monochrome Acorn branded monitors.

@gslug1 Год назад

@@SimonEllwood There are a couple in the list of Acorn product codes: ANF01, ANF21, along with colour ANF02 and ANF12. I've never seen one though!

@SimonEllwood Год назад

@@gslug1 I think I used to have an Acorn Green screen that looked like it had been made by Philips. I sold it in 2019. (I had a large collection of retro but sold 90 percent of it in 2019 when downsizing).

@gslug1 Год назад

@@SimonEllwood I certainly remember Philips branded monochrome monitors. We had some at school that looked like a slightly smaller CM8***. I assume the Acorn was one of these.

@tra-viskaiser8737 Год назад

Meby give us a weight of this monitor? I am curious now... Thank you for all the work you do for the channel and our entertainment/need for history.

@jameshearne891 Год назад

Yes, that is the tripler, sometime separate like this, sometimes built into the flyback transformer.

@reidster87 Год назад

I'm guessing that the monitor was photographed to make colour slides for presentations/slideshows: text, graphs, charts, etc.

@LordOfNihil Год назад

compact design makes things feel heavier. my 12l sff computer is freaking heavy when you carry it. you expect a large machine to be heavy but not a tiny one, but its all the same parts just more compact.

@jdebultra Год назад

That's a real gem

@cairsahrstjoseph996 Год назад

My fav monitor has got to be the 1701. It is heavier, beefier than the 1702 or 1802 and had a good bass sound

@MikeSmith-sh3ko Год назад

Normally in the variable inductors they use to put a rubber band on one side to hold the thread of the ferrite core . With age they can be a bit reluctant to move .l use to repair TVs back in the days

@Michael_Brock Год назад

I do remember, vaguely the blow back here in the UK. Sinclair had attempted US roll out. So Acorn tried, million pound budget, but it failed. I do remember a unless American style TV ad recycled here that bombed, and computer magazines saying about money Acorn wasted and them recycling adverts.

@briangoldberg4439 Год назад

There is a "Nanao" label on the PCB. That's EIZO. I wonder what the deal is with that, I supposed they could have provided the PCB components. It also makes sense that it's a NEC PCB because EIZO has used NEC displays. I think maybe this is a rebranded Nanao 7030?

@thawedcrumpet1682 Год назад

Your sweater matches the colour of the screen!

@area73blog Год назад

Wow I actually have a virtually identical 12" Taxan monitor that I"ve had sitting around for at least 20 years now. It's seen better days, but last I checked it ws still working though could probably use a cleaning and maybe a recap. The only difference I see so far is that the one in this video has different inputs. Mine has a composite video input and the Japanese-style RGB input. In fact the only reason I haven't gotten rid of it is because it's the only thing I own that does composite color without a converter.

@Jimmy666James Год назад

I have just been given a taxan (cannot remember the model right now) in the box never used… turns out it’s monochrome but with a vga connection which I have never seen before

@stephmaccormick3195 Год назад

TAXAN was a brand of Kaga Electronics Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan.

@67restomodder Год назад

My Jr. High School in Phoenix in 1985 or so had an Acorn computer lab. I remember they were quite proud of it. Of course they also had a lab full of Apple ]['s.

@robrobbins Год назад

I recently got rid of two CRT monitors. They are not accepted as e-waste anymore. I listed them on Craigslist for free and they were picked up within hours. You cannot just throw them away and it costs too much to ship them to sell them on eBay. I was going to be stuck with them but that Craigslist trick often works.

@adriansdigitalbasement2 Год назад

Yeah they are hot commodities now -- so unless they are hugr TVs, people will snap up them super quickly

@megasous Год назад

Used to have an acorn electron when i was a kid

@neilthomas6042 Год назад

Living in the UK, I used the BBC Micro, not sure if I used the Acorn Electron. Never owned them.

@captainchaos3667 Год назад

24:30 - the width _was_ changing at the end there!

@srfrg9707 Год назад

I had the same monitor under the brand Taxan. This one is missing the front tinted glass that made wonders removing reflections from the face of the tube. I used it with my Oric Atmos and later with my Amiga 500 but the color resolution was not good enough to display the Amiga's plethora of nuances.

@fensoxx Год назад

For the record, it’s Woah-burn Massachusetts

@jamesdecross1035 Год назад

Interesting, I've got that strange video connector on the back of a tiny little 5" Sharpe colour monitor, too. Also, a Kodak-Wrattan 82A filter is a bluish colour correction filter - but I wonder which film-stock was in use. Perhaps it was a tungsten-balanced film designed for indoor use.

@jmcarp0 Год назад

very nice, ty!

@Tranarpnorra Год назад

You would be surprised what's going on in your regular industrial production sites all around the world. Just this week I was enticed to upgrade a 14" CRT (Samsung) that had come to be a little bit dim. Woe is me/us.

@owenvogelgesang7314 Год назад

I think that weird Japanese RGB connector is called an EIAJ connector. I'm on the lookout for a Sony monitor with one in order to use it with my Betacam deck!