[QuadList] Ball Brothers

David Crosthwait david at dcvideo.com
Fri Mar 25 11:41:54 CDT 2011


Does anyone remember Miratel (spelling?) color monitors in the blue  
enclosures? Another winner.

David





On Mar 25, 2011, at 9:38 AM, Dennis Ray Wingo wrote:

> Ball Brothers computer monitors had really poor reliability.  We  
> had to replace them often at Vector Graphic Inc when we used them.
>
>
> On Mar 25, 2011, at 9:33 AM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
>
>>
>> Ball Brothers
>>
>> I knew them from a different angle.....  green screen OEM computer  
>> monitors.
>> They did fine with those!
>>
>> Speaking of Conrac....  Nuclear Reactor  control rooms also used   
>> them along with Ayden Controls Keyboards ( really a video display  
>> system graphics terminal)
>>
>> I was fortunate to  obtain a truck loads of these  ( for a song!)  
>> in the 80's from a manufacturer of process control computers in  
>> the 80's just about the time  the IBM PC came out...   had  2  
>> sizes   one  that would fit in a 19 inch rack and them LARGE  
>> ones!  20 something inch  screens. we sold them to computer  
>> people, we sold them to video people... and in the end  ended up  
>> selling some back into the  control room environment as well.
>>
>> Of course at the  time  my major miff  with them was  they were  
>> JUST RGB  and I wanted to plug in the composite video to it!
>>
>> Ed Sharpe CEO  Computer Exchange Inc  --   Retired
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