[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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