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From: keller@uicsl.UUCP
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Subject: Help with Graphics Monitor Design - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 11-Dec-83 22:36:56 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 11 22:36:56 1983
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uicsl!keller    Dec 11 21:54:00 1983

	Recently in net.micro someone wrote about their quest for a high
resolution monitor suitable for a high resolution graphics system they were
building. The problem was that a sufficiently good monitor was $800 or so
and that was just too expensive. After a lot of phone calls they final found
a Clinton replacement tube that had the right long persistence phosphor and
was plug compatible with some common cheap monitor.
	I would like to build a high-res graphics system like those found on
LISP machines, PERQ's, Pixels, CPT word processors, etc. This doesn't seem
to be a common hobbyist project. Clinton seems to be a good source for
tubes, but what about the other components? I haven't priced the tubes, but
how much should a monitor like this cost? Some company was selling a full
page display option for the Apple ][ for about $1k. Surely the monitor
wasn't more than $500. Seems like one could start a company making high-res
BW graphics terminal for about $1500. Say 1024 by 800.
	Since I haven't built a monitor what are the design issues and
what costs what?

Shaun Keller ...pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!keller