I also acquired a monitor that way. I looked up places that did video work, tape duplication, editing etc.
They either have sent to e-waste all their NTSC gear or have not got around to doing it. If not, help them out :-). I got rack unit with 2 side by side Sony monitors for free. I gave the guy I was talking to $20 to buy the guy who took it out of the rack for me and for himself to get a beer. Also try your local TV stations. And if any independent news teams with a van. -pete On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Ed via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > yes stacked back in the back area behid other tonnage there are lots > of these square cabinet monitors both color and B/W all various > sized > many names sony Panasonic jvc and more. Wish I had these when I had > my apple... they were expensive, especially the color cube broadcast > monitors. > > I could never bring myself to ever toss any of them. > > the stuff I used with the apple 2 I had were old b/w conrac > monitors with tubes in them! > > I had other friends that had converted TV's so the TV would accept > straight composite video thus giving a sharper image than stuff run > though modulators. > > I need to match some of these up with some early video switchers > for remote trucks for a display and a few to save for computers but > at > some point we will probably cut 20 or 30 them loose or so. ed# > > > > > > > In a message dated 8/22/2017 4:23:13 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > I suggest that you keep your eyes open for a small CRT-based CCTV monitor. > Possible sources include eBay, Craigslist, Goodwill, etc., as well as > folks on lists like this one. > > I've been looking for an old Sanyo VM-4209 or VM-4509 monochrome monitor > for a while, to put on my SOL-20. One of those would be Just Right for the > SOL-20, as well as for an early Apple II series machine. The few I've seen > have been in poor shape, yet listed for RARE L@@K STEVE JOBS prices. I > recently found a younger monitor via Goodwill. It's about a decade too > new to be > Just Right for my SOL-20, but it at least has similar boxy styling to the > monitor I'd really like. Newer monitors like that are a lot less rare, and > still tend to have more reasonable prices. Something like that might suit > your needs well. > > Now, you say you want a color monitor. I think that similar color CCTV > monitors are even more commonly available. I haven't been paying close > attention to them since I've been looking for a specific monochrome > monitor, but I > think I've seen various color ones bouncing off my brain's spam filters. I > think that one of the small, boxy, color CRT CCTV monitors might look > quite nice with your IIc. > > -- > Mark J. Blair, NF6X <[email protected]> > http://www.nf6x.net/ > > >
