Mac SE screen

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Mon Sep 18 09:38:35 2000

Adrian,

   Too bad you're in the UK. I have a nice Classic and a nice SE that are
looking for homes.

    Joe

At 11:53 AM 9/18/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Well, not only was the screen dead but the analogue board too. The part #s
>for the screens in the Plus, SE and Classic were the same, except the
>classic was a slightly different sub-variant (E instead of D). I installed
>the Classic CRT and got nothing, nix, nada, so I figured if the Classic was
>mostly dead it was OK to assume the screen was too. I only thought about the
>analogue board when I'd installed the Plus screen, so I swapped that too and
>hey presto - working SE. I then put the Classic screen in the Plus and that
>works too, so there's now a completely dead Classic available (well, the
>mobo might be OK) as well as the bones of an SE! There's no point in keeping
>the bust CRTs since they're beyond repair.
>
>a
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk [mailto:ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk]
>> Sent: 14 September 2000 18:56
>> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
>> Subject: Re: Mac SE screen
>>
>>
>> >
>> > > I know that the CRT in a Mac+ is a pretty standard 9" mono
>> > > CRT, and that there's nothing odd about the pin
>> configuration or operating
>> >
>> > > voltages. I suspect the SE's CRT is similar, but I've
>> never had the
>> > > chance to pull one of those machines to bits.
>> >
>> > I'll do it then, and compare the numbers and boards etc, and check
>> > apple-history to make sure the resolutions were the same,
>> which I think they
>> > were.
>>
>> The resolution shouldn't matter for a monochrome CRT (there are no
>> phosphor dots/stripes on such a screen). The resolution is really
>> determined by the driver electronics, although the yoke is
>> likely to be
>> different as well (different scan rates -> different yoke
>> inducatance, etc)
>>
>> >
>> > > Incidentally, if you had 2 dead SEs and broke one of the
>> CRTs, what
>> > > happened to the other CRT? It's not common for them to fail
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > The good old british postal service 'happened' to the other
>> CRT. They
>>
>> Ah... That explains it :-(
>>
>> -tony
>>
>
Received on Mon Sep 18 2000 - 09:38:35 BST