Mac SE screen

From: Adrian Graham <agraham_at_ccat.co.uk>
Date: Mon Sep 18 09:05:25 2000

Ta for that, but I've already got a v.clean classic and the SE will buff up
quite nicely when I get the time!

a

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe [mailto:rigdonj_at_intellistar.net]
> Sent: 18 September 2000 15:04
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: RE: Mac SE screen
>
>
> 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 - 09:05:25 BST