[QuadList] Ball Brothers

[Dennis Ray Wingo]

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:

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> Ball Brothers
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> 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)
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> 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.
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> 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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